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UNISA996210561203316 |
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Titolo |
Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : new interdisciplinary essays / / edited by Bronwen Price |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-73406-X |
9786610734061 |
1-84779-034-8 |
1-4175-7800-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series introduction; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1 Introduction - BRONWEN PRICE; 2 Narrative contexts for Bacon's 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 New Atlantis - JERRY WEINBERGER; 7 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis - CLAIRE JOWITT |
8 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - KATE AUGHTERSON9 Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - SIMON WORTHAM; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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