Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern EnglandThese essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought. |
Contents
Mapping Regeneration in The Winters Tale | |
Hobbes Science and Rhetoric Revisited | |
Reformed Catechism and Scientific Method in Miltons Of Education and Paradise | |
Milton Bacon and the Royal Society Rhetoricians | |
Understanding Margaret Cavendish and the Royal | |
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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England Juliet Cummins,David Burchell Limited preview - 2007 |
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