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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Novum organum.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
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Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. Hudibras
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SUBJECT |
Hudibras (Butler, Samuel) fast |
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Novum organum (Bacon, Francis) fast |
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Paradise lost (Milton, John) fast |
Subject |
Philosophy, English -- 17th century.
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Beginning -- History -- 17th century
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Beginning
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English poetry -- Early modern
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Philosophy, English
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442678132 |
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1442678135 |
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