Possible knowledge : the literary forms of early modern science /
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature--what early moderns termed poesie--in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Reveali...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Edmund Spenser's Speculative Method
- Chapter 2. William Shakespeare's Prophetic Recipes
- Chapter 3. Francis Bacon's "Endlesse Worke"
- Chapter 4. Margaret Cavendish's Physical Poetics
- Chapter 5. John Milton's Evental Poetics
- Coda. The Ethics of Poiesis
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments