| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) |
| Series |
Texts in culture |
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Texts in culture
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| Contents |
Introduction / Bronwen Price -- Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis / Paul Salzman -- Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis / Sarah Hutton -- Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis / David Colclough -- Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis / Richard Serjeantson -- On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis / Jerry Weinberger -- 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis / Claire Jowitt -- 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Kate Aughterson -- Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Simon Wortham |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.
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| SUBJECT |
Bacon, Francis. swd |
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New Atlantis (Bacon, Francis) fast (OCoLC)fst01358044 |
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Nova Atlantis. swd |
| Subject |
Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Nova Atlantis (Bacon)
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Anthologies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Price, Bronwen, editor
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| ISBN |
1417578009 |
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9781417578009 |
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1847790348 |
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9781847790347 |
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128073406X |
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9781280734069 |
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9786610734061 |
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6610734062 |
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