New Atlantis

Author(s)

• Bacon, Francis
• Smith, G. C. Moore (George Charles Moore)

Bibliographic Information

New Atlantis

by Francis Bacon ; edited, with an excursus on Bacon's grammar, by G.C. Moore Smith

Cambridge University Press, 2014, c1900

• : pbk

Other Title

New Atlantis : an unfinished work

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Originally published in 1900, this book contains an edited version of Francis Bacon's utopian novel New Atlantis. The text is accompanied by a history of the book's creation, a discussion of the role New Atlantis played in Bacon's philosophy, and an examination of its influence on later literature. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Francis Bacon.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Date of the New Atlantis
• Connexion of the New Atlantis with Bacon's philosophical reform
• Bacon's aim and art in the New Atlantis
• The influence of the New Atlantis
• Bacon's grammar as exemplified in the New Atlantis
• Text
• Notes
• Glossary
• Index of proper names.

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Details

• NCID: BB16485839
• ISBN:
  • 9781107663640
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, U.K.
• Pages/Volumes: lvi, 72 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 823.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Atlantis (Legendary place) -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Utopias