The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science / Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble, editors.
| Other author | Marchitello, Howard. |
| Other author | Tribble, Evelyn. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] |
| Description | xlvi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science |
| Contents | Part I. Theorizing early modern science and literature. The grounds of literature and science: Margaret Cavendish's Creature Manifesto / Liza Blake -- 'Deductions from metaphors': figurative truth, poetical language, and early modern science / Wendy Beth Hyman -- Imaginary voyages: the new science and its search for a vantage point (or: how the imagination was used to domesticate the exotic) / Ofer Gal -- Francis Bacon's literary-scientific utopia / Angus Fletcher. |
| Contents | Part II. Reading matter. John Donne and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- God's game of hide-and-seek: Bacon and allegory / Kristen Poole -- Crafting early modern readers: Galileo and his interlocutors / Crystal Hall -- Milton, the poetics of matter and the sciences of reading /Elizabeth Spiller -- Reading literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the book of nature / James J. Bono -- Communicating medical recipes: Robert Boyle's genre and rhetorical strategies for print / Michelle DiMeo. |
| Contents | Part III. Pre-disciplinary knowledges. The orphic physics of early modern eloquence / Jenny C. Mann -- Hurricanes, tempests, and the meteorological globe / Steve Mentz -- Milton, Leibniz, and the measure of motion / Shankar Raman -- No joyful voices: The silence of the urns in Browne's Hydriotaphia and contemporary archaeology / Philip Schwyzer -- Robert Boyle's 'Accidents of an Ague' and its precursors / Claire Preston -- Poetico-mathematical women and The Ladies' Diary / Jacqueline D. Wernimont -- Curiosity and the occult: the ambiguities of science in eighteenth-century British literature / Barbara M. Benedict. |
| Contents | Part IV. Modalities. Medical discourses of virginity and the bed-trick in Shakespearean drama / Kaara L. Peterson -- 'Angry Mab with Blisters Plague': the pre-modern science of contagion in Romeo and Juliet / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Poetic science: wonder and the seas of cognition in Bacon and Pericles / Jean E. Feerick -- A mythography of water: hydraulic engineering and the imagination / Louise Noble -- Hybrid philosophers: Cavendish's reading of Hooke's Micrographia / Ian Lawson -- Making worlds: invention and fiction in Bacon and Cavendish / Frédérique Aït-Touati. |
| General note | "Palgrave Handbooks" -- from front cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-536) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016962450 |
| ISBN | 1137467789 |
| ISBN | 9781137467782 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |