Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585) (Record no. 6881)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02021 a2200301 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 1351902830
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250317111633.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 250312042016GB eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781351902830
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 42.99
Form of issue BB
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency 01
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code DSB
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code PDX
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code NH
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code DSBD
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code PDX
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code HB
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LIT004190
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LIT000000
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code 823.3
Source bisac
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nandini Das
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585)
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20161205
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 224 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainment. He described his newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and influence of the planets interlaced with 'pleasant and tragical histories,' which one could ostensibly use as a manual to identify various planetary influences on 'natural constitution.' In this first complete critical edition, Nandini Das presents Planetomachia as a complex hybrid which is eminently a product of its times, exploring how the two very different intellectual and cultural spheres of Humanist scholarship and Renaissance popular print engage in an intriguing, albeit uneasy, dialogue to produce this unique work of prose fiction. The volume gives a clear sense, afforded by no other existing edition, of the intellectual climate which shaped this text. It offers substantial introductory material (on biographical, literary and scientific contexts) and extensive annotation identifying Greene's allusions and elucidating his vocabulary. It also includes translations and extracts from significant sources, along with a bibliography of relevant primary texts and critical work on Greene generally and on Planetomachia in particular.

No items available.