Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity – serie
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Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy, overlooking the fact that Burton is writing a …
Staging Anatomies
Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Considering the playhouses' role within the social world of early modern London, Nunn explores the …
Birth of Mankind
Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book
Av Elaine Hobby
Inbunden, 2009
2818 kr
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Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction, and childcare. Until now, …
John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618)
A Critical Edition
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a fictional surveyor and several interlocutors”including a tenant farmer, an aristocrat landowner, a manorial officer, and a socially mobile land buyer”is …
Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought
Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005)
Av Catherine Gimelli Martin, Julie Robin Solomon
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront …
Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585)
Av Nandini Das
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainment. He described his newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and influence of the planets interlaced …
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2009
2879 kr
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Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses …
Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Av David Burchell, Juliet Cummins
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, …
Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that …
Milton's Secrecy
And Philosophical Hermeneutics
Inbunden, 2008
2879 kr
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Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic …
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture
Av Leah Knight
Inbunden, 2009
2879 kr
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Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and …
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650
Inbunden, 2009
3146 kr
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The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female …
Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
Inbunden, 2011
2879 kr
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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern …
John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618)
A Critical Edition
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a fictional surveyor and several interlocutors”including a tenant farmer, an aristocrat landowner, a manorial officer, and a socially mobile land buyer”is …
Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
Av Stephanie Moss, Kaara L. Peterson
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
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This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contributors …
Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature
Mediation and Affect
Av Jen E. Boyle
Häftad, 2016
926 kr
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Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, …
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
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The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female …
Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that …
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
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Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses …
Milton's Secrecy
And Philosophical Hermeneutics
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
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Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic …
Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern …
Staging Anatomies
Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Considering the playhouses' role within the social world of early modern London, Nunn explores the …
Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Av David Burchell, Juliet Cummins
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
Lägg i varukorg
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, …
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture
Av Leah Knight
Häftad, 2016
1043 kr
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Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and …
Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought
Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005)
Av Catherine Gimelli Martin, Julie Robin Solomon
Häftad, 2019
926 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront …
Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature
Mediation and Affect
Av Jen E. Boyle
Inbunden, 2010
3390 kr
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Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, …
Literature, Science and Religion in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
Av Lise Gosseye
Inbunden, 2024
2116 kr
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Using a canonical work of Dutch literature, Ooghentroost (Consolation for the eyes), as a focal point, this book examines the development of literature as a specific discursive domain during the early modern period. It traces how literature begins to be set apart from the scientific and religious …
Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
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Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy, overlooking the fact that Burton is writing a …
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language
Inbunden, 2005
2839 kr
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Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what …
Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
Av Stephanie Moss, Kaara L. Peterson
Inbunden, 2004
2839 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contributors …
