The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science 1st Edition by Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble ISBN 9781137463616 1137463619

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ISBN 10: 1137463619

ISBN 13: 9781137463616

Author: Howard Marchitello, Evelyn Tribble

 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 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.

Table of contents: 

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

2. ‘Deductions from Metaphors’: Figurative Truth, Poetical Language, and Early Modern Science

3. Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domesticate the Exotic)

4. Francis Bacon’s Literary-Scientific Utopia

5. John Donne and the New Science

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

7. Crafting Early Modern Readers: Galileo and His Interlocutors

8. Milton, the Poetics of Matter, and the Sciences of Reading

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

10. Communicating Medical Recipes: Robert Boyle’s Genre and Rhetorical Strategies for Print

11. The Orphic Physics of Early Modern Eloquence

12. Hurricanes, Tempests, and the Meteorological Globe

13. Milton, Leibniz, and the Measure of Motion

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

15. Robert Boyle’s ‘Accidents of an Ague’ and Its Precursors

16. Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary

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

18. Medical Discourses of Virginity and the Bed-Trick in Shakespearean Drama

19. ‘Angry Mab with Blisters Plague’: The Pre-Modern Science of Contagion in Romeo and Juliet

20. Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles

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

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

23. Making Worlds: Invention and Fiction in Bacon and Cavendish

24. Afterword

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