The machine in the text : science and literature in the age of Shakespeare and Galileo / Howard Marchitello.
2011
PR408.S34 M37 2011 (Mapit)
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The machine in the text : science and literature in the age of Shakespeare and Galileo / Howard Marchitello.
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ISBN
9780199608058
0199608059
0199608059
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
[xi], 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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PR408.S34 M37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.93609032
Summary
Critical examination of the relationship between literature and science--and more broadly, art and nature--in the early modern period. Draws on major writers of the period to redefine literature and art as knowledge-producing activities and recast emerging sciences as imaginative, creative, and literary.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-230) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : science studies and early modern literature and culture
Gray's Inn revels, 1594-5
Hamlet's machine
Galileo's telescope
John Donne's new science writing
Nature's art
Time's arrow
Conclusion : being archaic.
Gray's Inn revels, 1594-5
Hamlet's machine
Galileo's telescope
John Donne's new science writing
Nature's art
Time's arrow
Conclusion : being archaic.