Francis Bacon's New Atlantis: New Interdisciplinary EssaysBronwen Price Manchester University Press, 2018 M07 30 - 224 pages This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. |
Contents
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Narrative contexts for Bacons New Atlantis | 28 |
Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis | 48 |
Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis | 60 |
Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis | 82 |
On the miracles in Bacons New Atlantis | 106 |
Books will speak plain? Colonialism Jewishness and politics in Bacons New Atlantis | 129 |
gender sexual difference and knowledge in Bacons New Atlantis | 156 |
Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacons New Atlantis | 180 |
Notes on contributors | 199 |
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