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Redefining literature and art as knowledge-producing practices and recasting the practices of emergent science as imaginative, creative, and literary, this book draws upon recent work to argue for a more complex understanding of early modern culture in which the scientific can be said to produce the...

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Main Author: Marchitello, Howard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and science > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
Science in literature > History > 16th century.
Science in literature > History > 17th century.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences dans la littérature > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Sciences dans la littérature > Histoire > 17e siècle.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
England.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
1500-1700
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Redefining literature and art as knowledge-producing practices and recasting the practices of emergent science as imaginative, creative, and literary, this book draws upon recent work to argue for a more complex understanding of early modern culture in which the scientific can be said to produce the literary and the literary the scientific.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0191729493
9780191729492