LEADER 03448nam 2200613 450 001 9910816038603321 005 20230124195429.0 010 $a1-5017-2342-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501723421 035 $a(CKB)4100000004818127 035 $a(OCoLC)1008768935 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5379744 035 $a(DE-B1597)496424 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501723421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5379744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11554664 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004818127 100 $a20180524d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLight without heat $ethe observational mood from Bacon to Milton /$fDavid Carroll Simon 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 311 0 $a1-5017-2340-5 311 0 $a1-5017-2341-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aLiterature and science$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aObservation (Scientific method)$zEnglan$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPhilosophy of nature in literature 606 $aEmpiricism in literature 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y17th century 610 $anonchalance, affect theory, experimental science, Michel de Montaigne, renaissance literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aObservation (Scientific method)$xHistory 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature in literature. 615 0$aEmpiricism in literature. 676 $a820.9/004 700 $aSimon$b David Carroll$0772253 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816038603321 996 $aLight without heat$91576518 997 $aUNINA