Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670

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Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670

Title remainder

the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Spiller

Title variation

Science, Reading, & Renaissance Literature

Creator

• Spiller, Elizabeth

Subject

• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
• Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
• Literature and science -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Renaissance -- England
• Science in literature
• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 46

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

46