Nature and the new science in England, 1665-1726 /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Van Renen, Denys, author. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, [2018] |
| Description: | xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2018:08 Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2018:08. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11693751 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. 'Think there': nature and cognition in Restoration England
- i. Miltonic environments
- ii. Re-cognition in a postlapsarian world
- iii. Stimulated by nature: reembodying England
- iv. Natures after the Renaissance
- 2. Royalism, the new science and Native representational systems in America
- i. Reclaiming the nation in The Indian queen and in The Indian emperour
- ii. Salvaging Native epistemologies
- iii. The 'noble earth'
- iv. Coda
- 3. Fantasies of 'natural' imperialism in the Far East
- i. Pivoting from America to Asian cultures and environments
- ii. Indamora and the Eastern improvisator
- iii. Coda
- 4. Artifice and adaptability on the borders of 'Europe'
- i. The European semiotics of fashion
- ii. Erasing borders and reestablishing cross-cultural ties in the Ottoman Empire
- iii. The limits of women's intimacy
- 5. Reconfiguring the borders of the human
- i. The howling within / hollowing out of Western ideologies
- ii. Abandonment: reembodying the animal
- Coda: Scottish Enlightenment and the invention of nature
- i. Exploring the Arctic: the last refuge of nature
- ii. Scotland as 'another form'?
- Bibliography
- i. Primary works
- ii. Secondary works
- iii. Other useful works
- Index