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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marchitello, Howard (Editor ), Tribble, Evelyn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Colección:Palgrave handbooks of literature and science.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Science > History.
Sciences > Histoire.
History of science.
Literary studies: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Science
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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; Kristen Poole
  • 7. Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors; Crystal Hall
  • 8. Milton, the Poetics of Matter and the Science of Reading; Elizabeth Spiller
  • 9. Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature; James Bono
  • 10. Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle's Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print; Michelle DiMeo
  • PART III: PRE-DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGES
  • 11. The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence; Jenny C. Mann
  • 12. Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe; Steve Mentz
  • 13. Milton, Leibniz, and the Mathematics of Motion; Shankar Raman
  • 14. No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne's Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology; Philip Schwyzer
  • 15. Robert Boyle's Accidents of an Ague and its Precursors; Claire Preston
  • 16. Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies' Diary; Jacqueline Wernimont
  • 17. Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Barbara Benedict
  • PART IV: MODALITIES
  • 18. Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-Trick in Shakespearean Drama; Kaara L. Peterson
  • 19. 'Angry Mab with Blisters Plague': The Pre-modern Science of Contagion in Romeo and Juliet; Mary Floyd-Wilson
  • 20. Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles; Jean E. Feerick
  • 21. A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination; Louise Noble
  • 22. Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish's Reading of Hooke's Micrographia; Ian Lawson
  • 23. Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish; Frédérique Aït-Touati
  • AFTERWORD; Peter Dear
  • TOPICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED FURTHER READING: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND CULTURE; Christopher Morrow
  • Index.-

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