LEADER 04921nam 2200841 450 001 9910797649203321 005 20210506203846.0 010 $a0-8122-9188-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291889 035 $a(CKB)3710000000482487 035 $a(EBL)4321852 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16136001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12202950 035 $a(PQKB)10225536 035 $a(OCoLC)920231229 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48519 035 $a(DE-B1597)452751 035 $a(OCoLC)979970130 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149340 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL827313 035 $a(OCoLC)935259513 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0004591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321852 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000482487 100 $a20160210h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisknowledge $eliterature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England /$fKatherine Eggert 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cpublished in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library, University of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-4751-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNotes on Texts, Biblical Quotations, and Bibliography --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. How to Sustain Humanism --$tChapter 2. How to Forget Transubstantiation --$tChapter 3. How to Skim Kabbalah --$tChapter 4. How to Avoid Gynecology --$tChapter 5. How to Make Fiction --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $a"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still held. Humanism thus came to share the status of alchemy: a way of thinking simultaneously productive and suspect, reasonable and wrongheaded. Eggert argues that English writers used alchemy to signal how to avoid or camouflage pressing but discomfiting topics in an age of rapid intellectual change. Disknowledge describes how John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, William Harvey, Helkiah Crooke, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare used alchemical imagery, rhetoric, and habits of thought to shunt aside three difficult questions: how theories of matter shared their physics with Roman Catholic transubstantiation; how Christian Hermeticism depended on Jewish Kabbalah; and how new anatomical learning acknowledged women's role in human reproduction. Disknowledge further shows how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Margaret Cavendish used the language of alchemy to castigate humanism for its blind spots and to invent a new, post-humanist mode of knowledge: writing fiction. Covering a wide range of authors and topics, Disknowledge is the first book to analyze how English Renaissance literature employed alchemy to probe the nature and limits of learning. The concept of disknowledge?willfully adhering to something we know is wrong?resonates across literary and cultural studies as an urgent issue of our own era. 606 $aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAlchemy$zEngland$y16th century 606 $aAlchemy$zEngland$y17th century 606 $aAlchemy in literature 606 $aReligion and science$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aReligion and science$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aScience, Renaissance 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory 615 0$aAlchemy 615 0$aAlchemy 615 0$aAlchemy in literature. 615 0$aReligion and science$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and science$xHistory 615 0$aScience, Renaissance. 676 $a001.0942/09031 700 $aEggert$b Katherine$01572736 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797649203321 996 $aDisknowledge$93847924 997 $aUNINA