This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes we tend to understand in scientific terms had implications for, and were implicated by, changes in literary structure, revealing that the "scientific revolution" was literary and that the "literary revolution" was scientific.
This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes we tend to understand in scientific terms had implications for, and were implicated by, changes in literary structure, revealing that the "scientific revolution" was literary and that the "literary revolution" was scientific.
Michael Slater is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of Liberal and Integrative Studies at SUNY Brockport, USA, where he works on Renaissance drama, the intersections between literature and the history of science, and allegory. He has published articles on, among other texts, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, Othello, The Changeling, and Paradise Lost.
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Introduction: A "Literary-Scientific Revolution?" Chapter 1 - A New Concept of Motion: Allegory and the "Literary Revolution" Chapter 2 - A Poetics of "Transfixion": Dissecting Allegory in The Faerie Queene Chapter 3 - Rethinking "Revolution": Hamlet's Astronomical Metaphors Chapter 4 - The Ghost in the Machine: "Emotion" and Mind-Body Union from Hamlet to Descartes Chapter 5 - Reading the "Book of Nature": Allegory and Astronomy in Galileo and Kepler Index
Introduction: A "Literary-Scientific Revolution?" Chapter 1 - A New Concept of Motion: Allegory and the "Literary Revolution" Chapter 2 - A Poetics of "Transfixion": Dissecting Allegory in The Faerie Queene Chapter 3 - Rethinking "Revolution": Hamlet's Astronomical Metaphors Chapter 4 - The Ghost in the Machine: "Emotion" and Mind-Body Union from Hamlet to Descartes Chapter 5 - Reading the "Book of Nature": Allegory and Astronomy in Galileo and Kepler Index
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