Science, literature, and rhetoric in early modern England
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the 17th and 18th centuries. Scholars examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding
Aufsatzsammlung
241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780754657811, 9781138265318, 0754657817, 1138265314
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The fashioned image of poetry or the regular instruction of philosophy?": truth, utility, and the natural sciences in early modern England / Peter Harrison
Mapping regeneration in The winter's tale / Anne Sutherland
"A plain blunt man": hobbes, science, and rhetoric revisited / David Burchell
Reformed catechism and scientific method in Milton's Of education and paradise lost / Angelica Duran
Rewriting the revolution: Milton, Bacon, and the Royal Society rhetoricians / Catherine Gimelli Martin
A philosophical duchess: understanding Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society / Peter Dear
Literary responses to Robert Boyle's natural philosophy / Peter Anstey
Milton's chaos in Pope's London / Sophie Gee
Global analogies: cosmology, geosymmetry, and skepticism in some works of Aphra Behn / Robert Markley
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