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"Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse provides new insight on the Baconian debates by examining the works of Donne, Marvell, and Rochester as resistance to Bacon s theory of scientific progression. With sharp, close readings, Funari persuasively demonstrates the argumentative power of seventeenth-century poetry as a counter narrative to what would become the dominant ideology of Western science." - Amy L. Tigner, assistant professor of English, University of Texas, Arlington
"A fascinating, well-argued comparison between Francis Bacon's narrative of recovering human dominion over nature and seventeenth-century skeptics who deny its possibility. Funari draws insightful parallels with today's proponents of technological solutions and environmental philosophers who propose new ways of living with the more-than-human world. Of interest to anyone who wishes to see how history and literature can inform the roots of today's environmental crisis." - Carolyn Merchant, professor, University of California, Berkeley and author of The Death of Nature and Reinventing Eden
"An original and interesting approach to the clash of cultures - the established literary world reacting against the rise of the scientific worldview - this book raises intriguing questions for anyone studying early modern thought." - Linda Anderson, professor of English, Virginia Tech, and author of A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's Plays
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Book Title: Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse
Authors: Anthony J. Funari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337916
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11684-9Published: 03 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29748-1Published: 03 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33791-6Published: 10 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 174
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Intellectual Studies, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory