03448nam 2200613 450 991081603860332120230124195429.01-5017-2342-110.7591/9781501723421(CKB)4100000004818127(OCoLC)1008768935(MdBmJHUP)muse65984(MiAaPQ)EBC5379744(DE-B1597)496424(DE-B1597)9781501723421(Au-PeEL)EBL5379744(CaPaEBR)ebr11554664(EXLCZ)99410000000481812720180524d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLight without heat the observational mood from Bacon to Milton /David Carroll SimonIthaca ;London :Cornell University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource1-5017-2340-5 1-5017-2341-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism -- "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne -- The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination -- The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power -- The paradise without : John Milton in the garden.In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the new science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.Literature and scienceEnglandHistory17th centuryEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismObservation (Scientific method)EnglanHistory17th centuryPhilosophy of nature in literatureEmpiricism in literatureEnglandIntellectual life17th centurynonchalance, affect theory, experimental science, Michel de Montaigne, renaissance literature.Literature and scienceHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Observation (Scientific method)HistoryPhilosophy of nature in literature.Empiricism in literature.820.9/004Simon David Carroll772253MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816038603321Light without heat1576518UNINA