Screen LibraryThe Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave handbooks of literature and science
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| Item Description: | "Palgrave Handbooks" -- from front cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xliv, 544 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137467782 1137467789 |
| Index Number: | PN55 |
| CLC: | I561.063-62 |
| Call Number: | I561.063-62/P161 |
| Contents: |
Part IV. Modalities. Medical discourses of virginity and the bed-trick in Shakespearean drama / Kaara L. Peterson -- 'Angry Mab with Blisters Plague': the pre-modern science of contagion in Romeo and Juliet / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Poetic science: wonder and the seas of cognition in Bacon and Pericles / Jean E. Feerick -- A mythography of water: hydraulic engineering and the imagination / Louise Noble -- Hybrid philosophers: Cavendish's reading of Hooke's Micrographia / Ian Lawson -- Making worlds: invention and fiction in Bacon and Cavendish / Fr�ed�erique A�it-Touati. Part II. Reading matter. John Donne and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- God's game of hide-and-seek: Bacon and allegory / Kristen Poole -- Crafting early modern readers: Galileo and his interlocutors / Crystal Hall -- Milton, the poetics of matter and the sciences of reading /Elizabeth Spiller -- Reading literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the book of nature / James J. Bono -- Communicating medical recipes: Robert Boyle's genre and rhetorical strategies for print / Michelle DiMeo. Part III. Pre-disciplinary knowledges. The orphic physics of early modern eloquence / Jenny C. Mann -- Hurricanes, tempests, and the meteorological globe / Steve Mentz -- Milton, Leibniz, and the measure of motion / Shankar Raman -- No joyful voices: The silence of the urns in Browne's Hydriotaphia and contemporary archaeology / Philip Schwyzer -- Robert Boyle's 'Accidents of an Ague' and its precursors / Claire Preston -- Poetico-mathematical women and The Ladies' Diary / Jacqueline D. Wernimont -- Curiosity and the occult: the ambiguities of science in eighteenth-century British literature Part IV. Modalities. Medical discourses of virginity and the bed-trick in Shakespearean drama / Kaara L. Peterson -- 'Angry Mab with Blisters Plague': the pre-modern science of contagion in Romeo and Juliet / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Poetic science: wonder and the seas of cognition in Bacon and Pericles / Jean E. Feerick -- A mythography of water: hydraulic engineering and the imagination / Louise Noble -- Hybrid philosophers: Cavendish's reading of Hooke's Micrographia / Ian Lawson -- Making worlds: invention and fiction in Bacon and Cavendish / Frédérique Aït-Touati. |