Book contents
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Chapter 6 Lyric and Spiritualism: John Donne’s “The Ecstasy”
- Chapter 7 Romance and the Boundaries of Genre and Gender
- Chapter 8 Drama and Globalization in Early Modern England
- Chapter 9 The Court Masque: Art and Politics
- Chapter 10 Prose, Science, and Scripture: Francis Bacon’s Sacred Texts
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
Chapter 10 - Prose, Science, and Scripture: Francis Bacon’s Sacred Texts
from Part II - Literature and Ideological Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2019
Book contents
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Chapter 6 Lyric and Spiritualism: John Donne’s “The Ecstasy”
- Chapter 7 Romance and the Boundaries of Genre and Gender
- Chapter 8 Drama and Globalization in Early Modern England
- Chapter 9 The Court Masque: Art and Politics
- Chapter 10 Prose, Science, and Scripture: Francis Bacon’s Sacred Texts
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
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Harrison, Peter, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, Stephen, Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon (Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2008).Google Scholar
Snider, Alvin, Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994).Google Scholar
Stillman, Robert E., The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1995).Google Scholar
Whitney, Charles, Francis Bacon and Modernity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).Google Scholar