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OverviewHow should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic variety that characterise the literary texture of their work. Inspired laymen were quick to borrow from the new philosophy and from practising scientists in order to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Between them, scientists, natural historians, poets, dramatists, and essayists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England examines those forms and that literary-scientific texture, as well as representations of the scientific--the laboratory, collaborative experimental retirement, and the canons of scientific conversation--and proposes that the writing of seventeenth-century science mirrors the intellectual and investigative processes of early modern science itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Preston (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Queen Mary University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.40cm Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9780192867032ISBN 10: 0192867032 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 28 July 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback 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 ContentsIntroduction 'A Distemper of Learning': The Languages of Science 1: Orlando Curioso: The Lapsarian Style of Thomas Browne 2: Equivocal Boyle and the Enamelled Telescope 3: 'A Blessing in the Wilderness': Fictions of Polity and the Place of Science 4: Dining Out in the Republic of Letters: The Rhetoric of Scientific Correspondence 5: The Counsel of Herbs: Scientific Georgic Bibliography IndexReviewsIt is no wonder that Claire Preston's scrupulously well-researched The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England is such a pleasure to read ... Inspired by Enlightenment reason and Brownian fecundity alike, Preston's study does right by both the early modern era and our own. * Wendy Beth Hyman, Renaissance Quarterly * Preston's argument marries rhetorical elegance with the patterned clarity of the quincunxes admired by [Thomas] Browne. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 * The book asks not a new question but an important one: what do or can science and the humanities say to each other, what do they have in common? * Clio Doyle, Los Angeles Review of Books * This book offers an important framework for understanding the variety of intersecting and dialogic interactions between natural history and imaginative writing during the early modern period and beyond. * George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * Claire Preston's book is a stimulating and wide-ranging analysis of the nexus between science and literature in the age of the putative English scientific revolution. * Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography * Author InformationClaire 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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