Possible Knowledge : : The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science / / Debapriya Sarkar.

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• VerfasserIn: Sarkar, Debapriya,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early moderns termed poesie—in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Edmund Spenser’s Speculative Method
• Chapter 2. William Shakespeare’s Prophetic Recipes
• Chapter 3. Francis Bacon’s “Endlesse Worke”
• Chapter 4. Margaret Cavendish’s Physical Poetics
• Chapter 5. John Milton’s Evental Poetics
• Coda. The Ethics of Poiesis
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments