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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.