Defoe and the New Sciences
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521024365
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History; Befoe, Daniel - 1661?-1731 - Knowledge - Scie; Befoe, Daniel - 1661?-1731 - Knowledge - Science; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Science-History; 1561-1626; 17th century; 18th century; Bacon, Francis,; Great Britain; Influence; Literature and science; Science
First sentence: 'For Defoe, above almost any other, we may recall the words of Sir Francis Bacon: "he is a citizen of the world, and ... his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them".'