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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays /

This volume of essays on Bacon's "The New Atlantis" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Price, Bronwen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; 2002.
Colección:Texts in culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bronwen Price
  • Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis / Paul Salzman
  • Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis / Sarah Hutton
  • Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis / David Colclough
  • Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis / Richard Serjeantson
  • On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis / Jerry Weinberger
  • 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis / Claire Jowitt
  • 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Kate Aughterson
  • Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Simon Wortham.