| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power -- The paradise without : John Milton in the garden. |
| Summary |
"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Influence.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. |
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Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and science. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Observation (Scientific method) -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Observation (Scientific method) |
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Philosophy of nature in literature.
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Philosophy of nature in literature. |
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Empiricism in literature.
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Empiricism in literature. |
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Simon, David Carroll. Light without heat. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501723407 (DLC) 2017048069 |
| ISBN |
9781501723421 (electronic book) |
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1501723421 (electronic book) |
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9781501723414 |
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1501723413 |
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9781501723407 (hardcover) |
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