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The Matter of Revolution : Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton /

John Rogers addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersections between the English and Scientific Revolutions, concentrating on a body of work created in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogers, John, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The power of matter in the English Revolution
  • Marvell, Winstanley, and the natural history of the green age
  • Marvell and the action of virginity
  • Chaos, creation, and the political science of Paradise lost
  • Milton and the mysterious terms of history
  • Margaret Cavendish and the gendering of the vitalist utopia
  • Conclusion : Adamant liberals : the failure of the matter of revolution.