SCIENCE, READING, AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE by Elizabeth Spiller ( 9780511484018 )

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Title:

SCIENCE, READING, AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
THE ART OF MAKING KNOWLEDGE, 1580-1670

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ISBN 10:

0511484011

ISBN 13:

9780511484018

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 September, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 46

Description:

Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature.

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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8 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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