Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England : literature, natural philosophy, objects / Alvin Snider.

Snider, Alvin Martin,
Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England :
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ISBN
9781315668918 electronic book
1315668912 electronic book
9781317362531 electronic book
1317362535 electronic book
9781317362548 electronic book
1317362543 electronic book
9781317362524 electronic book
1317362527 electronic book
9781138949874 hardcover
9781032911335 paperback
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İngilizce
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New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
©2025
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Dizi
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Özet, vb.
"This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter, and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of non-human relations. Focusing on texts that cross the frontier between literature and science, Snider recovers the material and body worlds of seventeenth-century culture as treated in poetry, natural philosophy, medical treatises, comedy, and prose fiction. He shows how a range of writers understood and theorized "matter," "bodies," and "spirits" as characters in complex and sometimes bizarre scenarios involving human relationships to the phenomenal world. The logic that made matter subject to uniform theorizing facilitated a crossing of boundaries between the human and nonhuman and became a persistent figure of explanation at the time when distinctions between the natural and the artificial were undergoing reformulation"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
English literature __ Early modern, 1500-1700 __ History and criticism.
Literature and science __ England __ History __ 17th century.
Human beings __ Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Renaissance __ bisacsh
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