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Book SynopsisThis volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives on Bacon's The New Atlantis'. -- .
Table of ContentsSeries introduction; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1. Introduction - Bronwen Price; 2. Narrative contexts for The New Atlantis - Paul Salzman; 3. Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and The New Atlantis - Sarah Hutton; 4. Ethics and politics in The New Atlantis - David Colclough; 5. Natural knowledge in The new Atlantis - Richard Serjeantson; 6. On the miracles in Bacon's The New Atlantis - Jerry Weinberger; 7. 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in The New Atlantis - Claire Jowitt; 8. 'Strange things so probably told': Gender, sexual difference and knowledge in The New Atlantis - Kate Aughterson; 9. Censorship and the institution of knowledge in The New Atlantis - Simon Wortham; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography
