Defoe and the New Sciences

AvIlse Vickers,Howard Erskine-Hill

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Del 32 i serien Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

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In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience; and he never wavered in his conviction that it is man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon's legacy to Defoe, Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Defoe's way of thinking and writing. She outlines the seventeenth-century intellectual milieu, and discusses the prominence of Defoe's teacher Charles Morton among major Baconian thinkers of the century. She goes on to consider a wide range of Defoe's work, from the point of view of his familiarity with the ideals of experimental philosophy, and throws new light on the close link between his factual and his fictional works. In the process Vickers reveals a new Defoe: not only a thorough Baconian, but also a far more consistent writer than has hitherto been recognized.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-03-09
Mått:153 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521024365

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"It is not often that a book comes out that makes so much sense that one wonders why nobody thought of it before. Such is the case with Ilse Vickers' study of Daniel Defoe. Vickers' work is useful, livel, and interesting for any facet of Defoe studies, not merely the ones she covers, since her theory can be applied to Defoe's theoretical ideas and his moral principles." British and American Literatures

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Part I. The Baconian Scientific Milieu: 1. The legacy of Francis Bacon; 2. The selective taking-up of Bacon's ideas: biographical sketches of five followers of Bacon; 3. Charles Morton and the new sciences; Part II. Daniel Defoe: 4. Daniel Defoe and the Baconian legacy; 5. Defoe's General History of Trade: its relation to the Baconian histories; 6. Robinson Crusoe: man's progressive dominion over nature; 7. A New Voyage round the World: Defoe the traveller-scientist by sea; 8. Defoe's Tour: a natural history of man and his activities; Appendix.