Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)

Elizabeth Spiller

ISBN 10: 0521037689 / ISBN 13: 9780521037686

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

Paperback. 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. Brings together key works in early modern science and literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish) to explore how two cultures and disciplines, science and literature, developed through a shared aesthetic of knowledge. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780521037686

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

Informazioni sull?autore: Elizabeth Spiller is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of English, Texas Christian University. She has published in a number of journals including Renaissance Quarterly, Criticism, Studies in English Literature, and Modern Language Quarterly.

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Titolo: Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new
Edizione: prima edizione