The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science / Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble editors.
Marchitello, Howard, editor.; Tribble, Evelyn, editor.
2017
PR428.S48
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Title The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science / Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble editors.
ISBN 9781137463616 (electronic book)
1137463619 (electronic book)
9781137467782
1137467789
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017].
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-46361-6 doi
Call Number PR428.S48
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/353
Summary This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.
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INTRODUCTION; Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble
PART I: THEORIZING EARLY MODERN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
1. The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Creature Manifesto; Liza Blake
2. Metaphor as a Strategy for Decoding Nature: Sir Thomas Browne and the ‘Hieroglyph’ Trope; Wendy Beth Hyman
3. Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point; Ofer Gal
4. Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia; Angus Fletcher
PART II: READING MATTER
5. John Donne and the New Science; Mary 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 Science of Reading; Elizabeth Spiller
9. Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature; James 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 Mathematics of Motion; Shankar Raman
14. No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne’s Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology; Philip Schwyzer
15. Robert Boyle’s Accidents of an Ague and its Precursors; Claire Preston
16. Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary; Jacqueline Wernimont
17. Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Barbara 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 Romeo and Juliet; Mary Floyd-Wilson
20. Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles; Jean E. Feerick
21. A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination; Louise Noble
22. Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish’s Reading of Hooke’s Micrographia; Ian Lawson
23. Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish; Frédérique Aït-Touati
AFTERWORD; Peter Dear
TOPICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED FURTHER READING: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND CULTURE; Christopher Morrow
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