Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 16: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Burchell, David

 
9780754657811: Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754657817 ISBN 13: 9780754657811
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

These 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.

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About the Author

Juliet Cummins is Honorary Research Advisor in the English Department at the University of Queensland, Australia. David Burchell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754657817
ISBN 13 
9780754657811
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
Editor
Cummins Juliet

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