The Matter of Revolution : : Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton / / John Rogers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rogers, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Rogers, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersection between the English and Scientific Revolutions, concentrating on a body of work created in a brief but potent burst of intellectual activity during the period of the Civil Wars, the Interregnum, and the earliest years of the Stuart Restoration. Rogers traces the broad implications of a seemingly outlandish cultural phenomenon: the intellectual imperative to forge an ontological connection between physical motion and political action.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Power of Matter in the English Revolution -- 2. Marvell, Winstanley, and the Natural History of the Green Age -- 3. Marvell and the Action of Virginity -- 4. Chaos, Creation, and the Political Science of Paradise Lost -- 5. Milton and the Mysterious Terms of History -- 6. Margaret Cavendish and the Gendering of the Vitalist Utopia -- Conclusion–Adamant Liberals: The Failure of the Matter of Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index