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Culture of accidents : unexpected knowledges in early modern England / Michael Witmore.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BD701 .W44 2001
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LIBRA BD701 .W44 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Witmore, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accidents--History.
- Accidents.
- Philosophy, English.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the narrative transformation of " accidents" - whether collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, or pirate attacks- from a philosophical dead end to an occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Narrative Wonder 1
- 1 Early Modern Accidents and an Aristotelian Tradition 17
- 2 Exemplary Accidents from Cicero to Jean Calvin 42
- 3 The Avoidance of Ends in The Comedy of Errors 62
- 4 Hamlet Interrupted 82
- 5 Accident and the Invention of Knowledge in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy 111
- 6 Wonders Taken for Signs: The Blackfriars Accident of 1623 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-218) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804735565
- OCLC:
- 47081397
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