Mary Thomas Crane

Gebundenes Buch

Losing Touch with Nature

Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England

Beschreibung

This fascinating book traces the growing awareness of that epistemological gap through textbooks and natural philosophy treatises to canonical poetry and plays, presciently registering and exploring the magnitude of the human loss that accompanied the beginnings of modern science.

Autor

Mary Thomas Crane is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England and Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781421415314
• ISBN-10: 1421415313
• Artikelnr.: 40926083