03433nam 22007455 450 991025524620332120240801031031.09781137568038113756803810.1007/978-1-137-56803-8(CKB)3710000000636106(SSID)ssj0001647584(PQKBManifestationID)16418168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001647584(PQKBWorkID)12276467(PQKB)11380940(DE-He213)978-1-137-56803-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4716446(Perlego)3505917(EXLCZ)99371000000063610620160308d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrLiterature in the Age of Celestial Discovery From Copernicus to Flamsteed /edited by Judy A. Hayden1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (IX, 224 p.) Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349887439 1349887439 9781137583451 1137583452 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443European literatureEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600LiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingLiteratureHistory and criticismEuropean LiteratureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryLiterary HistoryEuropean literature.European literatureLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.LiteratureHistory and criticism.European Literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Literary History.809/.93356Hayden Judy Aedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910255246203321Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery2526128UNINA