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OverviewThe rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius's De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed in Stephen Greenblatt's best-selling book, The Swerve, as the poem that invented modernity. But how modern did early modern readers want to become? From Lucretius' contemporary audience to the European Enlightenment, this collection of essays offers a series of case studies which demonstrates the sophisticated ways in which some readers might relate the poem to received ideas, assimilating Lucretius to theories of natural law and even natural theology, while others were at once attracted to Lucretius's subversiveness and driven to dissociate themselves from him. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Norbrook , Stephen Harrison , Philip HardiePublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.90cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9780198713845ISBN 10: 0198713843 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 19 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Note on Editions David Norbrook: Introduction 1: Stephen Harrison: Epicurean Subversion? Lucretius' First Proem and Contemporary Roman Culture 2: David Butterfield: Lucretius in the Early Modern Period: Texts and Contexts 3: Alison Brown: Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethics 4: Yasmin Haskell: Poetic Flights or Retreats? Latin Lucretian Poems in Sixteenth-Century Italy 5: Nicholas Davidson: Lucretius, Irreligion, and Atheism in Early Modern Venice 6: Wes Williams: 'Well said/well thought': How Montaigne Read his Lucretius 7: Line Cottegnies: Michel de Marolles's 1650 Translation of Lucretius and its Reception in England 8: William Poole: Lucretianism and Some Seventeenth-Century Theories of Human Origin 9: Nicholas Hardy: Natural Reason and the Laws of Nature in Early Modern Versions of Lucretius 10: David Norbrook: Atheists and Republicans: Interpreting Lucretius in Revolutionary England 11: Catherine Wilson: Political Philosophy in a Lucretian Mode Bibliography IndexReviewsThis slim, unassuming volume contains some of the most interesting and cutting-edge research in the reception of Lucretius' <em>De rerum natura</em> (hereafter <em>DRN</em>). The last decade has witnessed a major revival of interest in Lucretian studies, and there has been no dearth of scholarship on Lucretius' reception in and influence on the early modern period. The editors of this volume have done an admirable job of publishing important current research by leading scholars in their fields...Overall, this volume is a welcome addition to an ever-growing field of study on Lucretian reception. The editors should be congratulated on bringing together the scholars for this volume, and the authors for their insightful contributions. --Patrick M. Owens, <em>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</em> Lucretius and the Early Modern makes for instructive and compelling reading, but advanced background knowledge is required. The volume boasts articles written by distinguished scholars in the field, and it is exciting to see their conjoined efforts in a single publication. Daniele Macuglia, Renaissance Quarterly This slim, unassuming volume contains some of the most interesting and cutting-edge research in the reception of Lucretius' De rerum natura (hereafter DRN). The last decade has witnessed a major revival of interest in Lucretian studies, and there has been no dearth of scholarship on Lucretius' reception in and influence on the early modern period. The editors of this volume have done an admirable job of publishing important current research by leading scholars in their fields...Overall, this volume is a welcome addition to an ever-growing field of study on Lucretian reception. The editors should be congratulated on bringing together the scholars for this volume, and the authors for their insightful contributions. --Patrick M. Owens, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationDavid Norbrook is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Stephen Harrison is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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