Claire Preston

Broschiertes Buch

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

Beschreibung

This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable seventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.

Autor

Claire Preston is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Bee (Reaktion, 2006), and Edith Wharton's Social Register (Macmillan/St Martin's, 2000). She is the recipient of Guggenheim and British Academy research awards and of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867032
• ISBN-10: 0192867032
• Artikelnr.: 66159707