Francis Bacon's New Atlantis: New Interdisciplinary Essays

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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

Introduction
1
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
Select bibliography
201
Index
204
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Jeff Wallace is Lecturer in Contemporary English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University

John Whale is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Leeds

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