The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
February 16, 2009 11:47 AM
by Bruce R. Smith
University of Chicago Press, $39
From Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster” to the “green Thought in a green Shade” in Andrew Marvell’s The Garden, the color green was prominent in 16th- and 17th-century English culture. Bruce R. Smith, the Dean’s Professor of English at USC College, studies this curiosity, considering the significance of the color in the literature, visual arts and popular culture of early modern England. Contending that color is a matter of both sensation and emotion, he examines Renaissance culture through the lens of sense perception and aesthetic pleasure, while offering thoughts on the nature of consciousness, perception and emotion.
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