Francis Bacon and the seventeenth-century intellectual discourse
By: by Anthony J. Funari
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780230116849
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Influence; Nature in literature; English poetry; Intellectual life; Empiricism in literature; Literature and science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: An inheritance lost; title: Nature's confession; title: Baconian and anti-Baconian narratives in Donne's devotions; title: 'Companions of my thoughts more green': Damon's Baconian sexing of nature; title: A 'fantastic mind' and a 'fix'd heart': Rochester and the disciplining of the mind; title: Conclusion: Promethean and post-scientific narratives.