{"product_id":"the-poesy-of-scientia-in-early-modern-england-9783031517990","title":"The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Subha Mukherji\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 17th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics 'literature' and 'science' at a formative point in their early development. Rather than simply tracing lines of influence, it focuses on how both literary texts and natural philosophy engage with materiality, language, affect, and form. Some essays are invested in how early modern science adopts and actively experiments with rhetorical and poetic modes and expression, while others emphasize a shared investment in natural philosophical topics--alchemy, chance, or astrology for example--that move among the period's observational texts and its literature, highlighting the participation of literary texts in the production of experimental knowledge. Organised around the broad themes of creation and transformation, mediation and communication, and interpretation and imaginative speculation, the essays collectively probe the presumed dichotomy between science's schematizing and taxonomic ambitions, and the fertile and volatile creative energies of literary texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubha Mukherji\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave mini-series \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e, and was Principal Investigator of the 5-year interdisciplinary ERC project, \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, out of which the series, and this volume, emerge. She has published widely on early modern drama and law, law and literature, the poetics of space, literary epistemologies and Shakespeare. Her most recent work is \u003ci\u003eCrossings: Migrant Knowledge, Migrant Forms\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Natalya Din-Kariuki and Rowan Williams), forthcoming with punctum books in 2024. She is writing a book on \u003ci\u003eKnowing Encounters \u003c\/i\u003eand editing Shakespeare and Fletcher's \u003ci\u003eHenry VIII \u003c\/i\u003efor the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Swann\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include a monograph, Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2020), and she has a new short book, Science as Child's Play in Seventeenth-Century England: Innocence, Experience, and Experiment, forthcoming with Palgrave Pivot in 2024\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45278736253079,"sku":"9783031517990","price":10283.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031517990.webp?v=1769291744","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-poesy-of-scientia-in-early-modern-england-9783031517990","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}