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The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
Howard Marchitello (Ed.)
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Description for The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
Hardback. Editor(s): Marchitello, Howard; Tribble, Evelyn. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 1039.
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 from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among ... Read more
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 from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137467782
SKU
V9781137467782
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About Howard Marchitello (Ed.)
Howard Marchitello is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research and the Graduate School at Rutgers University—Camden, USA. He is author of The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (2011) and has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, ELR, and JMEMS. He served as Textual Editor of Henry V for the Norton ... Read more
Reviews for The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
“Advanced researchers and students of the early modern period will find in this volume a wealth of insights on the productive tensions between literary and scientific discourses. … The volume offers a vital introduction to the most significant interventions into early modern literature and science, as well as important new trajectories forming in the wake of renewed conversations about the ... Read more