Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science – serie
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Wreckage of Intentions
Projects in British Culture, 166-173
Av David Alff
Inbunden, 2017
980 kr
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"-a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future-that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, …
Symptomatic Subjects
Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2019
980 kr
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In the period just prior to medicine's modernity-before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism-England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and …
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Inbunden, 2021
778 kr
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The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this …
Wreckage of Intentions
Projects in British Culture, 166-173
Av David Alff
E-bok, 2017
1181 kr
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"-a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future-that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, …
Symptomatic Subjects
Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
E-bok, 2019
1155 kr
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In the period just prior to medicine's modernity-before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism-England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and …
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
E-bok, 2021
900 kr
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The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this …
Natural Laws of Plot
How Things Happen in Realist Novels
Av Yoon Sun Lee
Inbunden, 2022
842 kr
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Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting—and indeed, whether we can make such …
Natural Laws of Plot
How Things Happen in Realist Novels
Av Yoon Sun Lee
E-bok, 2022
1050 kr
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Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting—and indeed, whether we can make such …
Anatomical Forms
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women's Poetry
Inbunden, 2025
850 kr
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Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women's poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional …
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Häftad, 2026
380 kr
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A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bisonThe Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. …
