Science, reading, and Renaissance literature
Subtitle: the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670
By: Elizabeth Spiller.
Series: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;; 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Science in literature; Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and science -- England -- History -- 16th century; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century; Renaissance -- England; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Description: "Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies, and the history of academic disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.