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The Machine in the Text - Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo

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Zusatztext This is a valuable study ... Dense and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary study will be valuable for those interested in the "complex and mutually sustaining ... relationship between early modern science and literary culture." Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Howard Marchitello is the author of Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and editor of Thomas Middleton's The Mayor of Queenborough (Globe Quartos/Nick Hern Books, 2004) and What Happens to History: The Renewal of Ethics in Contemporary Thought (Routledge, 2001). He has published articles on Shakespeare, early modern garden theory, science studies, and early modern travel writing in English Literary History, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, New Centennial Review, and English Literary Renaissance, as well as book chapters in Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), and Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2002). He serves as Associate Editor of the South Central Review (published by Johns Hopkins University Press) and a member of the editorial board of the Renaissance section of Literature Compass (Blackwell). Klappentext Redefining literature and art as knowledge-producing practices and recasting the practices of emergent science as imaginative, creative, and literary, this book draws upon recent work to argue for a more complex understanding of early modern culture in which the scientific can be said to produce the literary and the literary the scientific. Zusammenfassung Redefining literature and art as knowledge-producing practices and recasting the practices of emergent science as imaginative, creative, and literary, this book draws upon recent work to argue for a more complex understanding of early modern culture in which the scientific can be said to produce the literary and the literary the scientific. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Science Studies and Early Modern Literature and Culture 2: Gray's Inn Revels, 1594-95 3: Hamlet's Machine 4: Galileo's Telescope 5: John Donne's New Science Writing 6: Nature's Art 7: Time's Arrow 8: Conclusion: Being Archaic ...

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