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Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays / Bronwen Price, editor. - 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) - Texts in culture . - Texts in culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis / Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis / Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis / Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis / On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis / 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis / 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Bronwen Price -- Paul Salzman -- Sarah Hutton -- David Colclough -- Richard Serjeantson -- Jerry Weinberger -- Claire Jowitt -- Kate Aughterson -- Simon Wortham.

Open Access

This volume of essays on Bacon's "The New Atlantis" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia.


English.

ISBN: 1417578009 9781417578009 9781847790347 1847790348 128073406X 9781280734069 9786610734061 6610734062

Source: 22573/ctt1554z2k JSTOR

LCCN: 2004296870

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA2U8184 bnb GBA2-U8184

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018370622 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.
Bacon, Francis.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
New Atlantis (Bacon, Francis)
Nova Atlantis.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
Nova Atlantis (Bacon)

Subjects--Index Terms: Multi-User.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Literary criticism.
Anthologies.

LC Class. No.: PR2207.N48 / F7 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 824.3