David Burchell

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Cummins, Juliet

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the contributions of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the development of modern Western thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138265318
• ISBN-10: 1138265314
• Artikelnr.: 57046170

Autorenporträt

Juliet Cummins is Honorary Research Advisor in the English Department at the University of Queensland, Australia. David Burchell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
'The fashioned image of poetry or the regular instruction of philosophy'? Truth utility and the natural sciences in early modern England, Peter Harrison
Mapping regeneration in The Winter's Tale, Anne Sutherland
'A plain blunt man': Hobbes, science and rhetoric revisited, David Burchell
Reformed catechism and scientific method in Milton's Of Education and Paradise Lost, Angelica Duran
Rewriting the revolution: Milton, Bacon and the Royal Society rhetoricians, Catherine Gimelli Martin
A philosophical duchess: understanding Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society, Peter Dear
Literary responses to Robert Boyle's Natural Philosophy, Peter Anstey
Milton's Chaos in Pope's London, Sophie Gee
Global analogies: cosmology, geosymmetry and skepticism in some works of Aphra Benn, Robert Markley
Bibliography
Index.