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Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays / edited by Bronwen Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Texts in culture.
- Texts in culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.
- Bacon, Francis.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume of essays on Bacon's ""The New Atlantis"" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series introduction; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1 Introduction - BRONWEN PRICE; 2 Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis - PAUL SALZMAN; 3 Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis - SARAH HUTTON; 4 Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis - DAVID COLCLOUGH; 5 Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis - RICHARD SERJEANTSON; 6 On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis - JERRY WEINBERGER; 7 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis - CLAIRE JOWITT
- 8 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - KATE AUGHTERSON9 Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - SIMON WORTHAM; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-73406-X
- 9786610734061
- 1-84779-034-8
- 1-4175-7800-9
- OCLC:
- 191925980
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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