The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of MiltonCornell University Press, 2018 M09 5 - 280 páginas John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersection between the English and Scientific Revolutions, concentrating on a body of work created in a brief but potent burst of intellectual activity during the period of the Civil Wars, the Interregnum, and the earliest years of the Stuart Restoration. Rogers traces the broad implications of a seemingly outlandish cultural phenomenon: the intellectual imperative to forge an ontological connection between physical motion and political action. |
Contenido
1 The Power of Matter in the English Revolution | 1 |
2 Marvell Winstanley and the Natural History of the Green Age | 39 |
3 Marvell and the Action of Virginity | 70 |
4 Chaos Creation and the Political Science of Paradise Lost | 103 |
5 Milton and the Mysterious Terms of History | 144 |
6 Margaret Cavendish and the Gendering of the Vitalist Utopia | 177 |
The Failure of the Matter of Revolution | 212 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton John Rogers Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton John Rogers Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
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