Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon
- Author:
- Simon, David Carroll
- Published:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2018
- Physical Description:
- xi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction. 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 -- Postscript.
- Summary:
- "Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"--
- Subject(s):
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626—Influence
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
- 1500-1700
- Literature and science—England—History—17th century
- English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism
- Observation (Scientific method)—England—History—17th century
- Philosophy of nature in literature
- Empiricism in literature
- English literature—Early modern
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Intellectual life
- Literature and science
- Observation (Scientific method)
- England—Intellectual life—17th century
- England
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781501723407 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1501723405 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-290) and index.
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