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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815128403321

Autore

Sokol B. J

Titolo

A brave new world of knowledge : Shakespeare's The tempest and early modern epistemology / / B.J. Sokol

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

London ; Cranbury, NJ, : Associated University Presses, c2003

ISBN

0-8386-4349-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of - History - 17th century

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Brave New World of Knowledge -- Introduction -- 1 The Natural History of Pearls and the Pearls in Ariel's Second Song -- 2 Scientific Theory: The Example of Thomas Harriot and Virginia -- 3 The Tempest and New World Cultural Encounter -- 4 The Tempest, Atmospheric Science, Prague Magi, and a Jamestown Experimenter -- 5 '' The Strong Necessity of Time'' -- 6 The Natural and the Supernatural -- 7 Why Prospero Abjures ''Rough Magic,'' and What He Must '' Acknowledge'' -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.