The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking.  Meer

This Element traces the breadth and significance of the musical love letter with a focus on the provocative lettere amorose of the seventeenth century.  Meer

This Element traces the breadth and significance of the musical love letter with a focus on the provocative lettere amorose of the seventeenth century.  Meer