The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of early modern literature and science
• Further Information: Note: Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble, editors.
• Editors: Marchitello, Howard; Tribble, Evelyn
• 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. 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. 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: London, England : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809.935; Literature; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Science -- History; Literature and science; Literature, Modern; History; English literature -- Early modern; Literature and science; Science; Science -- History; History of science; Literary studies: general; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786846822; 1786846829; 9781137463616; 1137463619
• Related ISBNs: 1137467789; 9781137467782
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.