Bücher der Reihe Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Debates that the poetry and prose of John Milton are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and Calvinist theory of conscience, this work argues that the attempt to theorize interpretation without discovery is not unorthodox within early modern English culture.

Addresses one of the enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines.

Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal.

Provides information on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book examines the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding.

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue, a text remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. In his extensive introduction, Mark Netzloff discusses the literary production of early modern surveyors and examines the impact of capital formation on agrarian and manorial class relations as well as on the natural environment of early modern England.

Features essays exploring the automaton - from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine - in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the title places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic.

Offers information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care. This work shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval, and contemporary ideas. It is useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women's.

Analyzes print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender, and presents original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals. This title establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women.