Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a review based on a scan read since the book does not look to be impressive scholarship.
There is no real description of anamorphosis and no illustrations to support a notion that the author understands it well.
The illustrations are poor. They look as if they have been lifted from the web at low resolution and enlarged. They are all pixellated to an extent that in many cases interpretion is impossible.
The author and publisher should be ashamed to present this especially as it is a relatively thin book and expensive.
The writing and/or editing is poor:
Niceron is said to be a Jesuit when he was a Minim, a totally different order. Anyone who had studied the literature would see this reference all the time.
The execution of Charles I is given as February 1649, when it was 30 January.

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"Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature" explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and experimental philosophy. Anamorphic mediation, Boyle brings to light, provided Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Daniel Defoe, among others, with a powerful techno-imaginary for traversing through projective, virtual experience. Drawing on extensive archival research related to the genre of 'practical perspective' in early modern Europe, Boyle offers a scholarly consideration of anamorphic perspective (its technical means, performances, and embodied practices) as an interactive aesthetics and cultural imaginary. Ultimately, Boyle demonstrates how perspective media inflected a diverse set of knowledges and performances related to embodiment, affect, and collective consciousness.