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The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science /

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding conc...

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Group Author: Marchitello, Howard; Tribble, Evelyn
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science
Subjects:
Literature
History
Literature, Modern
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
History of Science
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6
Summary: This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XLVI, 544 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781137463616
Index Number: PN715
CLC: I106
Contents: INTRODUCTION; Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble.- PART I: THEORIZING EARLY MODERN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE -- 1. The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish s Creature Manifesto; Liza Blake -- 2. Metaphor as a Strategy for Decoding Nature: Sir Thomas Browne and the Hieroglyph Trope; Wendy Beth Hyman -- 3. Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point; Ofer Gal -- 4. Francis Bacon s Literary-Scientific Utopia; Angus Fletcher.- PART II: READING MATTER -- 5. John Donne and the New Science; Mary Crane -- 6. God s Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory;

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