Marchitello, Howard
The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
Part I. Theorizing Early Modern Science and Literature
1. The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Creature Manifesto
Liza Blake
2. ‘Deductions from Metaphors’: Figurative Truth, Poetical Language, and Early Modern Science
Wendy Beth Hyman
3. Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domesticate the Exotic)
Ofer Gal
4. Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia
Angus Fletcher
Part II. Reading Matter
5. John Donne and the New Science
Mary Thomas Crane
6. God’s Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory
Kristen Poole
7. Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors
Crystal Hall
8. Milton, the Poetics of Matter, and the Sciences of Reading
Elizabeth Spiller
9. Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature
James J. Bono
10. Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle’s Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print
Michelle DiMeo
Part III. Pre-disciplinary Knowledges
11. The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence
Jenny C. Mann
12. Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe
Steve Mentz
13. Milton, Leibniz, and the Measure of Motion
Shankar Raman
14. No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne’s
Philip Schwyzer
15. Robert Boyle’s ‘Accidents of an Ague’ and Its Precursors
Claire Preston
16. Poetico-Mathematical Women and
Jacqueline D. Wernimont
17. Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Barbara M. Benedict
Part IV. Modalities
18. Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-Trick in Shakespearean Drama
Kaara L. Peterson
19. ‘Angry Mab with Blisters Plague’: The Pre-Modern Science of Contagion in
Mary Floyd-Wilson
20. Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and
Jean E. Feerick
21. A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination
Louise Noble
22. Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish’s Reading of Hooke’s
Ian Lawson
23. Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish
Frédérique Aït-Touati
24. Afterword
Peter Dear
Avainsanat: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Science
- Toimittaja
- Marchitello, Howard
- Tribble, Evelyn
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 44 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kirjallisuudentutkimus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137463616
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-137-46778-2