The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science / edited by Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marchitello, Howard, Editor.

Tribble, Evelyn., Editor.

Series:

Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science, 2946-5362

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Science--History.

Science.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

History of Science.

Local Subjects:

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

History of Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XLVI, 544 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION; Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble

PART I: THEORIZING EARLY MODERN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

1. The Grounds of Literature and Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Creature Manifesto; Liza Blake

2. Metaphor as a Strategy for Decoding Nature: Sir Thomas Browne and the ‘Hieroglyph’ Trope; Wendy Beth Hyman

3. Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point; Ofer Gal

4. Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia; Angus Fletcher

PART II: READING MATTER

5. John Donne and the New Science; Mary Crane

6. God’s Game of Hide-and-Seek: Bacon and Allegory; Kristen Poole

7. Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors; Crystal Hall

8. Milton, the Poetics of Matter and the Science of Reading; Elizabeth Spiller

9. Reading Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature; James Bono

10. Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle’s Genre and Rhetorical Strategiesfor Print; Michelle DiMeo

PART III: PRE-DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGES

11. The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence; Jenny C. Mann

12. Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe; Steve Mentz

13. Milton, Leibniz, and the Mathematics of Motion; Shankar Raman

14. No Joyful Voices: The Silence of the Urns in Browne’s Hydriotaphia and Contemporary Archaeology; Philip Schwyzer

15. Robert Boyle’s Accidents of an Ague and its Precursors; Claire Preston

16. Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary; Jacqueline Wernimont

17. Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Barbara Benedict

PART IV: MODALITIES

18. Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-Trick in Shakespearean Drama; Kaara L. Peterson

19. ‘Angry Mab with Blisters Plague’: The Pre-modern Science of Contagion in Romeo and Juliet; Mary Floyd-Wilson

20. Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles; Jean E. Feerick

21. A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination; Louise Noble

22. Hybrid Philosophers: Cavendish’s Reading of Hooke’s Micrographia; Ian Lawson

23. Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish; Frédérique Aït-Touati

AFTERWORD; Peter Dear

TOPICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED FURTHER READING: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND CULTURE; Christopher Morrow

Index.-.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786846822

1786846829

9781137463616

1137463619