The Oxford Francis Bacon Tome XV

Zusatztext Michael Kiernan has outclassed all previous editions; indeed, no work by Bacon has ever had such care lavished on it ... This edition provides the reader with more than he could ever have expected ... Professor Kiernan is to be congratulated for producing an edition which sets new standards in Bacon scholarship Informationen zum Autor Michael Kiernan is Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext This edition of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, a re-issue of the first critical edition since the nineteenth century, uses modern editorial standards to establish an authoritative, unmodernized text. The textual apparatus includes a comprehensive, chronological record of the substantive readings of all these manuscripts and editions, so that for the first time the evolution of Bacon's texts may be studied convenientlyin detail. An introduction places the essays in their original context, examines their evolution over Bacon's lifetime, and elucidates their form and prose style; a commentary examines his sources and relates essays to his other writings; a glossary and index are also included. Zusammenfassung This text presents Francis Bacon's essays that reflect the experience and reading of a Renaissance man. He exposes man as he is, examining such givens of Renaissance power as negotiating for position, expediting a personal suit, and the role of dissimulation in social and political situations.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Bacon
• Assisted by: Michael Kiernan (Editor), Kiernan Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2000
• EAN: 9780198186731
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818673-1
• No. of pages: 458
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; The Oxford Francis Bacon; Oxford English Monographs; Print on Demand; The Oxford Francis Bacon
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; England, English, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary essays, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy