Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827590)
This book explores how women writers, who have long been marginal to histories of literature and science, wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to...Loe edasi...
Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827590)
This book explores how women writers, who have long been marginal to histories of literature and science, wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to...Loe edasi...
Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512823400)
Why do we distinguish between plot and setting? This book argues that we should not: a novels plot relies minutely on the characteristics that are attributed to an outstretched physical world. Bodies behave according to laws that are built into wor...Loe edasi...
Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812253429)
Extinction and the Human brings some of the human/animal distinctions motivating concerns-morality, communicability, historical destiny, sovereignty-to case studies of human-animal relations in which animal species have become extinct or endangered...Loe edasi...
Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812250909)
In the period just prior to medicines modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanskis Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the cro...Loe edasi...
Sari: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812249590)
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called projects—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a Projecting...Loe edasi...
