The machine in the text : science and literature in the age of Shakespeare and Galileo / Howard Marchitello.

Author/creator Marchitello, Howard
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Description[xi], 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction : science studies and early modern literature and culture -- Gray's Inn revels, 1594-5 -- Hamlet's machine -- Galileo's telescope -- John Donne's new science writing -- Nature's art -- Time's arrow -- Conclusion : being archaic.
Abstract Critical examination of the relationship between literature and science--and more broadly, art and nature--in the early modern period. Draws on major writers of the period to redefine literature and art as knowledge-producing activities and recast emerging sciences as imaginative, creative, and literary.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [220]-230) and index.
LCCN 2011929388
ISBN9780199608058
ISBN0199608059

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Joyner General Stacks PR408.S34 M37 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold