Ecocritical Shakespeare

Bruckner, Lynne Bray

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better... Lees meer

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England

David Houston Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in ear... Lees meer

Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell

Diane Kelsey McColley

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and globa... Lees meer

Staging Anatomies

Hillary M Nunn

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of blood... Lees meer

Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature

Jen E Boyle

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen ... Lees meer

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Kevin Killeen

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits pro... Lees meer

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society

Cristina Malcolmson

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observati... Lees meer

Milton's Secrecy

James Dougal Fleming

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's... Lees meer

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

Gerhild Scholz Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Pr... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Stephen Pender, Nancy S. Struever

Nancy S Struever

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose ... Lees meer

Bodies, Politics and Transformations

Siobhán Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne's Metempsychosis. In contrast, this... Lees meer

Milton's Secrecy

James Dougal Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's... Lees meer

Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England

Leah Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes... Lees meer

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in ... Lees meer

Staging Anatomies

Hillary M Nunn

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of blood... Lees meer

Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

Stephanie Shirilan

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that m... Lees meer

Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage

Stephanie Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven... Lees meer

Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

Catherine Gimelli Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting o... Lees meer

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

David Burchell

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyz... Lees meer

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines bo... Lees meer

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England

David Houston Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the... Lees meer

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analy... Lees meer

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

David Burchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteen... Lees meer

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Kevin Killeen

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits pro... Lees meer