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COPYRIGHT 1994 University of Illinois Press
By Diane Kelsey McColley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. PP. xviii + 305; 61 plates. $49.95.
After a brief introductory chapter, appropriately called "In the Beginning," this study divides neatly into two sections. The first, composed of Chapters 2-3, surveys major themes in the Genesis story for their ecological and ethical import and visual renditions thereof, chiefly in northern Europe, from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Among the visual arts, Diane Kelsey McColley examines manuscripts, monuments, Bible illustrations, and engravings, reprinted in sixty-one handsome black and white plates, including the frontispiece. Using such artistic analogues as a frame of reference for understanding standing Milton's account of the prelapsarian and regenerative experience of Adam and Eve, McColley, in Chapters 4-6, studies the following topics: the creation by Adam and Eve of the arts...
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