Book ID: CBB406832825

The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (2017)

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Marchitello, Howard (Editor)
Tribble, Evelyn (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 544
Language: English

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Olster, Stacey
Tassanee Alleau
Kilian, Lauren
Shyam Wuppuluri
Ari Daniel Levine
Anderson, Penelope
Concepts
Science and literature
Literary analysis
Metaphors; analogies
Rhetoric in scientific discourse
Rhetorical analysis
Rhetoric, as a discipline
Time Periods
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
20th century, early
17th century
Modern
Places
England
Italy
Prague (Czechia)
Russia
France
China
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