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'Nowadays, we tend to think of science and literature as two cultures which have little in common, but Elizabeth Spiller's excellent study, Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature, explores an age when these disciplines were united by a 'shared aesthetics of knowledge'. Spiller skillfully dismantles our current assumption that 'literature is fiction and science is fact', arguing that early modern writers understood that 'knowledge involves form as well as content ... Spiller's perceptive parallel readings of texts usually kept separate is a valuable addition to scholarship on the early modern period, as well as to the study of science and literature.' Times Literary Supplement
'Original, learned and compelling. Spiller's superb discussion of Cavendish places her appropriately in very serious company.' Studies in English Literature
'... richly-documented pages, written in a clear and pleasant style ...'. Cahiers Élisabéthains
Book Description
This monograph documents the development of two cultures and disciplines: science and literature--through a shared aesthetic of knowledge. It brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature, ranging from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fiction of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish.
Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature : The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture),Elizabeth Spiller,Stephen Orgel,Anne Barton,Jonathan Dollimore,Marjorie Garber,Jonathan Goldberg,Nancy Vickers,Peter Holland,Kate McLuskie,Cambridge University Press,0521830869,17th century,Early modern, 1500-1700,England,English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,History,History and criticism,History: World,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature and science,Reference,Science in literature,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 19th century
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