Losing Touch With Nature - Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England

Informationen zum Autor Mary Thomas Crane is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England and Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory. Klappentext This fascinating book traces the growing awareness of that epistemological gap through textbooks and natural philosophy treatises to canonical poetry and plays, presciently registering and exploring the magnitude of the human loss that accompanied the beginnings of modern science. Zusammenfassung This fascinating book traces the growing awareness of that epistemological gap through textbooks and natural philosophy treatises to canonical poetry and plays! presciently registering and exploring the magnitude of the human loss that accompanied the beginnings of modern science.

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• Autori: , Mary Thomas Crane, Mary Thomas (Thomas F. Rattigan Professor Crane, Mary Thomas (Thomas F. Rattigan Professor; Chair Crane, Professor Mary Thomas Crane
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.01.2015
• EAN: 9781421415314
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1531-4
• Pagine: 248
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, SCIENCE / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, History of Science, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800