How Long to Read Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture by Ryan Curtis Friesen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Brings together authors of fiction with philosophers and academics in Early Modern England and compares their ways of describing and understanding the world; Explores popular culture as well as the culture of the learned and elite; Examines the intellectual consequences of the Reformation and compares the spiritual and doctrinal practices of the occult to those of orthodoxy. Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton, explicating how each author defines the supernatural, whether he assumes magic to operate in the world, and how he uses occult principles to explain what can be known and what is ethical. Beliefs and claims concerning impossible phenomena and superhuman agency require literary historians to determine whether an occult system of magical operation is being described in a given text. Each chapter in this volume evaluates whether a chosen early modern author is endorsing magic as efficacious or divinely sanctioned, or criticizing it for being fraudulent or unholy. By examining works of fiction, it is possible to explore fantastic settings which were not intended to be synonymous with the early modern audiences everyday experience, settings where magic exists and operates according to the playwrights designs. This book also sets out to determine what historical sources provided given authors with knowledge of the occult and speculates on how aware an audience would have been of academic, classical, or popular contexts surrounding the text at hand.

How long is Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture?

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture by Ryan Curtis Friesen is 261 pages long, and a total of 65,511 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 57 minutes to read Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture?

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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