The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1448
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780191009976
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 120,000 word study of the intersection of literary and scientific expression 1580-1700 draws on an extensive, varied body of writing, and especially archival and unpublished work. It asks how science adapted the genres and styles, and indeed the entire imaginative terrain, of poems, essays, plays and prose-fiction, to discover and establish a natural-philosophical mode in which rhetoric itself is a scientific instrument. In approaching science?s deployment of literature?s lexical, generic, canonical, and epistolary arsenal, the work of, among others, Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, Abraham Cowley, Margaret Cavendish, and John Evelyn is particularly prominent.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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