LEADER 03472cam a2200517 i 4500001 99131227788506421 005 20240919041012.0 008 231116t20242024nyua b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023052066 020 9781032422718 |qhardcover 020 1032422718 |qhardcover 020 9781032422992 |qpaperback 020 1032422998 |qpaperback 020 |z9781003368298 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1406019847 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dYDX 042 pcc 043 e------ 050 00 PN55 |b.S586 2024 082 00 809.3/36 |223/eng/20231116 100 1 Slater, Michael, |eauthor. 245 10 Tropes and the literary-scientific revolution : |bforms of proof / |cMichael Slater. 264 1 New York : |bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c2024. 264 4 |c©2024 300 221 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "Tropes & the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the "scientific revolution" inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Literary tropes and forms underwent tremendous reassessment in the seventeenth century, and early modern science was shaped just as powerfully by contest over the place of literary figures, from personification and metaphor to anamorphosis and allegory. In their rejection of teleological explanations of natural motion, for instance, early modern philosophers often disputed the value of personification, a figural projection of interiority onto what was becoming increasingly a mechanical world. And allegory--a dominant mode of literature from the late Middle Ages until well into the Renaissance--became "the vice of those times," as Thomas Rymer described it in 1674. This book shows that its acute devaluation was possible only in conjunction with a distinctively modern physics. Analyzing writings by Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, and more, it asserts that the scientific revolution was a literary phenomenon, just as the literary revolution was also a scientific one"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Literature and science |xHistory |y17th century. 650 0 Allegory. 651 0 Europe |xIntellectual life |y17th century. 650 7 Allegory. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00805516 650 7 Intellectual life. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 Literature and science. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01000093 651 7 Europe. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 1600-1699 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Slater, Michael. |tTropes and the literary-scientific revolution |dNew York : Routledge, 2024 |z9781003368298 |w(DLC) 2023052067 830 0 Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h161524 914 (OCoLC)on1406019847 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240918 |eprocessed |f1406019847 980 20539424 |f161524 |i180.00 |j147.60 |n40032401486 982 |cf |q32101114580796