Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

New Interdisciplinary Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-05-08
Mått138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTexts in Culture
Antal sidor224
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719060526

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Series introduction; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1. Introduction - Bronwen Price; 2. Narrative contexts for The New Atlantis - Paul Salzman; 3. Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and The New Atlantis - Sarah Hutton; 4. Ethics and politics in The New Atlantis - David Colclough; 5. Natural knowledge in The new Atlantis - Richard Serjeantson; 6. On the miracles in Bacon's The New Atlantis - Jerry Weinberger; 7. 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in The New Atlantis - Claire Jowitt; 8. 'Strange things so probably told': Gender, sexual difference and knowledge in The New Atlantis - Kate Aughterson; 9. Censorship and the institution of knowledge in The New Atlantis - Simon Wortham; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography