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Origin and authority in seventeenth-century England : Bacon, Milton, Butler /

Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Samuel Butler are three writers generally thought to have little in common. Yet, as Alvin Snider argues, all participated in the seventeenth-century discourse on origins. They believed that the truth of an idea could be determined by enquiry into its genesis, and look...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snider, Alvin Martin, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1994]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : origin, error, ideology
  • Part One. Francis Bacon : Organon and origin. 1. 'Pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge'
  • 2. Writing error in the Novum Organum
  • 3. Authorizing aphorism
  • 4. Legitimation and the origin of restoration science
  • Part Two. Seeing double in Paradise Lost. 5. Beginning late
  • 6. Who himself beginning knew?
  • 7. The figure in the mirror
  • Part Three. Butler's Hudibras : The post-epic condition. 8. 'As Aeneas bore his sire'
  • 9. Metaphysick wit
  • 10. A Babylonish dialect
  • 11. By equivocation swear.