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work_gcvyo5jubngizpvlxg4f5q3lkm	Svenn-Arve Myklebost	The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature. Deanna Smid. Costerus New Series 221. Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2017. viii + 210 pp. $127	2019	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1013	60	55	The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature. By contrast, in The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature, Deanna Smid investigates how early modern thinkers actually defined the imagination and how ideas about held belief that it was physically present in the brain as a central cognitive function common to animals and humans. including imagining the outcome of an action, registering the appearance of an object, between the body and the brain; the role of imagination, pregnancy, gender, and creativity; the dangers of an imagination running free; and the relationship between novelty, recombination, and religious devotion. Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller (chapter 2), Smid sees "pestilence as a metaphor for his stylistic representations of the imagination and its contagious influence" impact of visual-verbal forms on the imagination, an issue too briefly outlined in chapter 5, on emblems. Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature. A strong and at times provocative introduction from Goran Stanivukovic describes	./cache/work_gcvyo5jubngizpvlxg4f5q3lkm.pdf	./txt/work_gcvyo5jubngizpvlxg4f5q3lkm.txt