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

Burchell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138265314 ISBN 13: 9781138265318

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138265314
• ISBN 13: 9781138265318
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cummins Juliet