The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (eBook, PDF)
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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 from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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 from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.
Autorenporträt
Howard Marchitello is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research and the Graduate School at Rutgers University—Camden, USA. He is author of The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (2011) and has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, ELR, and JMEMS. He served as Textual Editor of Henry V for the Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition.
Evelyn Tribble is Professor of English and Donald Collie Chair at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre (Palgrave, 2011 ) and Cognitive Ecologies and the History of Remembering in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2011) . Her book Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare’s Theatre will be published in late 2017.