Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : new interdisciplinary essays / / edited by Bronwen Price

• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 824.3
• Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism
• Altri autori: PriceBronwen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis
• ISBN: 1-280-73406-X; 9786610734061; 1-84779-034-8; 1-4175-7800-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783232303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Texts in culture.