β Scribed by Alvin Snider
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Writing with economy, clarity, and verve, Snider revises the intellectual history of the seventeenth century, superimposing a new narrative of disintegrating confidence on the old one of the triumph of science over poetry.
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts
Introduction: Origin, Error, Ideology
Part One. Francis Bacon: Organon and Origin
1. 'Pure and Uncorrupted Natural Knowledge'
2. Writing Error in the Novum Organum
3. Authorizing Aphorism
4. Legitimation and the Origin of Restoration Science
Part Two. Seeing Double in Paradise Lost
5. Beginning Late
6. Who Himself Beginning Knew?
7. The Figure in the Mirror
Part Three. Butler's Hudibras: The Post-Epic Condition
8. 'As Aeneas Bore His Sire'
9. Metaphysick Wit
10. A Babylonish Dialect
11. By Equivocation Swear
Notes
Index
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