English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century ：A Trade for Light ( Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature )

Publication subTitle ：A Trade for Light

Publication series ：Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

Author： Silva Jorge Bastos da;Gomes Miguel Ramalhete  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9789004349360

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004349353

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

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This volume focuses on how the conceptual and performative aspects of science connect it in important ways with literary discourses. It addresses the reception of science by authors of literature, as well as how ‘mimesis’ intersects with scientific discourse.

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English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century: A Trade for Light

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Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Forethought: A Trade for Light and the State of the Art

Part 1: Engendering Space, Creating Meaning

1 Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa

2 The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material

3 A World of One’s Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning

4 The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology

Part 2: Forms of Discourse and Sociability

5 From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick

6 “Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric”: Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature

7 Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks

8 Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela

9 Quackery, “Chymistry” and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

Index

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