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Author Albanese, Denise, author.

Title New science, new world / Denise Albanese
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1996
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Making It New: History and Novelty in Early Modern Culture -- 2. Admiring Miranda and Enslaving Nature -- 3. The New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia -- 4. The Prosthetic Milton; Or, the Telescope and the Humanist Corpus -- 5. Galileo, "Literature," and the Generation of Scientific Universals -- Conclusion: De Certeau and Early Modern Cultural Studies
Summary In New Science, New World Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century - modern science and colonialism. Drawing on the discourse analysis of Foucault, the ideology-critique of Marxist cultural studies, and de Certeau's assertion that the modern world produces itself through alterity, she argues that the beginnings of colonialism are intertwined in complex fashion with the ways in which the literary became the exotic "other" and undervalued opposite of the scientific
Albanese reads the inaugurators of the scientific revolution against the canonical authors of early modern literature, discussing Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems and Bacon's New Atlantis as well as Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest. She examines how the newness or "novelty" of investigating nature is expressed through representations of the New World, including the native, the feminine, the body, and the heavens. "New" is therefore shown to be a double sign, referring both to the excitement associated with a knowledge oriented away from past practices, and to the oppression and domination typical of the colonialist enterprise
Exploring the connections between the New World and the New Science, and the simultaneously emerging patterns of thought and forms of writing characteristic of modernity, Albanese insists that science is at its inception a form of power-knowledge, and that the modern and postmodern division of "Two Cultures," the literary and the scientific, has its antecedents in the early modern world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
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Subject Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Dialogo dei massimi sistemi.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.
Donne, John, 1572-1631. Conclave ignati
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
SUBJECT Dialogo dei massimi sistemi (Galilei, Galileo) fast
New Atlantis (Bacon, Francis) fast
Paradise lost (Milton, John) fast
Tempest (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century
Geographical discoveries in literature.
Imperialism -- History -- 17th century
Science -- History -- 17th century
Imperialism in literature.
Science in literature.
Literature, Modern -- history
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SCIENCE -- History.
English literature -- Early modern
Geographical discoveries in literature
Imperialism
Imperialism in literature
Intellectual life
Literature and science
Science
Science in literature
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Naturwissenschaften
Wetenschap.
Kolonialisme.
Engels.
Letterkunde.
littérature anglaise -- science -- 17e s.
colonialisme -- littérature anglaise -- Amérique -- 17e s.
SUBJECT America -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004246
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854
Subject America
England
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822378808
0822378809