Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580–1670: 46 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 46) - Hardcover

Spiller, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521830869 ISBN 13: 9780521830867

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies and the history of academic disciplines.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Spiller is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of English, Texas Christian University. She has published in a number of journals including Renaissance Quarterly, Criticism, Studies in English Literature, and Modern Language Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521830869
• ISBN 13: 9780521830867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230