| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power -- The paradise without : John Milton in the garden |
| Summary |
"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
nonchalance, affect theory, experimental science, Michel de Montaigne, renaissance literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Influence
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 fast |
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Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Observation (Scientific method) -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Philosophy of nature in literature.
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Empiricism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Empiricism in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Literature and science
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Observation (Scientific method)
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Philosophy of nature in literature
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017052392 |
| ISBN |
9781501723421 |
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1501723421 |
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1501723405 |
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9781501723407 |
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