The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/disc... Lees meer

Staging Anatomies

Hillary M Nunn

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of blood... Lees meer

Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature

Jen E Boyle

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen ... Lees meer

Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550 1650

Rebecca Laroche

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women... Lees meer

John Norden's the Surveyor's Dialogue (1618)

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a fict... Lees meer

Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England

Leah Knight

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes... Lees meer

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Kevin Killeen

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits pro... Lees meer

Milton's Secrecy

James Dougal Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's... Lees meer

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines bo... Lees meer

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

Arielle Saiber

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between scien... Lees meer

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

David Burchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteen... Lees meer

Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell

Diane Kelsey McColley

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and globa... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Stephen Pender, Nancy S. Struever

Nancy S Struever

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose ... Lees meer

Ecocritical Shakespeare

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or... Lees meer

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines bo... Lees meer

Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage

Stephanie Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven... Lees meer

Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Bernadette Höfer

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Bernadette Höfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the prima... Lees meer

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Kaara L Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early m... Lees meer

Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

Stephanie Shirilan

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that m... Lees meer

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in ... Lees meer

Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

Stephanie Shirilan

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that m... Lees meer

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Kaara L Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early m... Lees meer

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

David Burchell

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyz... Lees meer

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in ... Lees meer