Francis Bacon's new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays
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Francis Bacon's new Atlantis : new interdisciplinary essays
(Texts in culture)
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced "scientific" society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. -- .
Table of Contents
- Series introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1. Introduction - Bronwen Price
- 2. Narrative contexts for The 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 The New Atlantis - Jerry Weinberger
- 7. 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in The New Atlantis - Claire Jowitt
- 8. 'Strange things so probably told': Gender, sexual difference and knowledge in The New Atlantis - Kate Aughterson
- 9. Censorship and the institution of knowledge in The New Atlantis - Simon Wortham
- Notes on contributors
- Select bibliography
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