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Chapter 11 - Lyric and Scientific Epistemologies: Bacon and Donne

from Part III - Literature and Cultural Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2019

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Kristen Poole: Affiliation:
University of Delaware
Lauren Shohet: Affiliation:
Villanova University, Pennsylvania

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Information: Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623 , pp. 199 - 214

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303774.012 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Clucas, Stephen, “‘A Knowledge Broken’: Francis Bacon’s Aphoristic Style and the Crisis of Scholastic and Humanist Knowledge-Systems,” in English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics, ed. Rhodes, Neil (Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997): 147–72.Google Scholar

Jardine, Lisa, Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), esp. chapter 4, “Bacon’s Theory of Knowledge,” 76–108.Google Scholar

Meinel, Christoph, “Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment,” Isis 79 (1988): 68–103.Google Scholar

Tribble, Evelyn and Marchitello, Howard, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).Google Scholar

Turner, Henry S., “Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on ‘Form,’” Isis 101 (2010): 578–89.Google Scholar

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Lyric and Scientific Epistemologies: Bacon and Donne
- By Liza Blake
Edited by Kristen Poole, University of Delaware, Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, Pennsylvania
Book: Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623
Online publication: 12 January 2019
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303774.012

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