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Author Snider, Alvin

Title Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England
Edition 17th ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TEXTS -- Introduction: Origin, Error, Ideology -- PART ONE: Francis Bacon: Organon and Origin -- 1 'Pure and Uncorrupted Natural Knowledge' -- 2 Writing Error in the Novum Organum -- 3 Authorizing Aphorism -- 4 Legitimation and the Origin of Restoration Science -- PART TWO: Seeing Double in Paradise Lost -- 5 Beginning Late -- 6 Who Himself Beginning Knew? -- 7 The Figure in the Mirror -- PART THREE: Butler's Hudibras: The Post-Epic Condition -- 8 'As Aeneas Bore His Sire' -- 9 Metaphysick Wit -- 10 A Babylonish Dialect -- 11 By Equivocation Swear -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary Writing with economy, clarity, and verve, Snider revises the intellectual history of the seventeenth century, superimposing a new narrative of disintegrating confidence on the old one of the triumph of science over poetry
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Subject Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Novum organum.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. Hudibras
SUBJECT Hudibras (Butler, Samuel) fast
Novum organum (Bacon, Francis) fast
Paradise lost (Milton, John) fast
Subject Philosophy, English -- 17th century.
Beginning -- History -- 17th century
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Beginning
English poetry -- Early modern
Philosophy, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442678132
1442678135