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Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays / Bronwen Price, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Texts in culturePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2002]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417578009
  • 9781417578009
  • 9781847790347
  • 1847790348
  • 128073406X
  • 9781280734069
  • 9786610734061
  • 6610734062
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis.DDC classification:
  • 824.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR2207.N48 F7 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 08.24
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Bronwen Price -- Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis / Paul Salzman -- Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis / Sarah Hutton -- Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis / David Colclough -- Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis / Richard Serjeantson -- On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis / Jerry Weinberger -- 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis / Claire Jowitt -- 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Kate Aughterson -- Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Simon Wortham.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

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