Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays / Bronwen Price, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Texts in culturePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2002]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)Content type:- text
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- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literature and literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
- New Atlantis (Bacon, Francis)
- Nova Atlantis (Bacon)
- Bacon, Francis
- Nova Atlantis
- Multi-User
- 824.3 22
- PR2207.N48 F7 2002eb
- 08.24
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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