Description
Book SynopsisExamines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism. This work explores 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.
Trade Review“
New Science, New World breaks new ground in connecting literary form to the advent of modernity as manifested in scientific discourse and colonial exploration. This phenomenally learned book is a real intervention in early modern cultural studies.”—Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University
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New Science, New World is a sophisticated account concerning the contradictory pressures at work in the production of modernity. The story of the relations between the scientific and the literary is an original one, and it is told with an elegance that is consistently persuasive.”—Catherine Belsey, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Making It New: History and Novelty in Early Modern Culture 13
2. Admiring Miranda and Enslaving Nature 59
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The New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia 92
4. The Prosthetic Milton; Or, the Telescope and the Humanist Corpus 121
5. Galileo, "Literature," and the Generation of Scientific Universals 148
Conclusion: De Certeau and Early Modern Cultural Studies 186
Notes 193
Works Cited 225
Index 239
