Author: Richard GarnettPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
From the age of Henry VIII to the age of Milton, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse
Author: Richard GarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
From the age of Henry VIII to the age of Milton, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse
Author: Richard GarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Standard Books
Author: Charles Frederick TweneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: The Educational Times, and Journal of the College of Preceptors
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Literary Digest
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution
Author: Angelica DuranPublisher: Duquesne
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution, Angelica Duran reveals the way in which Milton's works interacted with the revolutionary work of his contemporaries in science to participate in the dynamic "advancement of learning" of the time period. Bringing together primary materials by early modern scientists, including Robert Boyle, William Gilbert, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, John Ray, and John Wilkins as well as educational reformers such as Samuel Hartlib and Henry Oldenburg, The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution positions Milton's Literary Studies as a coequal partner with the new cosmological theories, mathematical developments, telescopes, and scientific tracts that so thoroughly affected every aspect of recorded life in seventeenth century England. Duran shows, for example, how new developments in ornithology worked to shape the Lady's power in the young Milton's celebratory A Mask, how mathematics informed the sexual relationship of Adam and Eve in his mature epic Paradise Lost, and how developments in optics transformed the blinded hero of the blind author's moving tragedy Samson Agonistes. While this study is indebted to the work of historians of science from C. P. Snow and Thomas Kuhn to Stephen Shapin and Stephen Jay Gould it is not a history of science per se, but rather a cultural study that appreciates poetry as a unique lens through which early modern England's large-scale developments in education and science are clarified and reflected. What emerges is an intimate sense of how the enormous changes of the English Scientific Revolution affected individual lives and found their ways into Milton's enduring poetry and prose.
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