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2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit

© 2024, University of Delaware Press, Newark, USA

© 2024, University of Delaware Press, Newark, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: The Early Modern Culture of Ingenuity 1
  5. Part I Comets
  6. 1 Poetry’s Comets: On Novelty and Artifice 37
  7. 2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit 78
  8. Part II Fireflies
  9. 3 At Small Scale: Multiplicity, Variety, and Play 117
  10. 4 The Life of Conceits: Juggling, Magic, and Alchemy 151
  11. Epilogue 193
  12. Notes 199
  13. Bibliography 259
  14. Index 299
  15. About the Author 313
The Age of Subtlety
This chapter is in the book The Age of Subtlety
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781644533475-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: The Early Modern Culture of Ingenuity 1
  5. Part I Comets
  6. 1 Poetry’s Comets: On Novelty and Artifice 37
  7. 2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit 78
  8. Part II Fireflies
  9. 3 At Small Scale: Multiplicity, Variety, and Play 117
  10. 4 The Life of Conceits: Juggling, Magic, and Alchemy 151
  11. Epilogue 193
  12. Notes 199
  13. Bibliography 259
  14. Index 299
  15. About the Author 313
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