Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery (eBook)
IX, 224 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-56803-8 (ISBN)
The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.
Judy Hayden is Professor of English at The University of Tampa, USA.
The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.
Judy Hayden is Professor of English at The University of Tampa, USA.
Introduction, 'Faln Systemes and Dead Chimæras'; Judy A. Hayden1. Heliocentrism, Plurality of Worlds, and Ethics: Anton Francesco Doni and Giordano Bruno; Pietro Daniel Omodeo2. Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon; David Cressy3. An English Renaissance Astronomy Club? Shakespeare, Observation,and the Cosmos; David H. Levy with Judy A. Hayden4. To the Moon: Discovering the Comic in the Cosmic on the Early Modern English Stage; Gabrielle Sugar5. Sailing to the Moon: Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, and the First Science Fiction; Catherine Gimelli Martin6. The Royal Society, Collective Vision, and Samuel Butler's 'The Elephant in the Moon'; J. Ereck Jarvis7. 'Cinthia's Hero': Edward Howard's The Six days Adventure or the New Utopia; Judy A. Hayden8. 'A new discovery of a new world': the Moon and America in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century European Literature; Brycchan Carey9. Astronomy, Prophecy, and Imposture in Tyssot de Patot's Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé; Daniel J. Worden
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.4.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 224 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Schlagworte | British and Irish Literature • Comic • Early Modern Literature • English literature • Europe • Fiction • Renaissance • Society • space • William Shakespeare |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-56803-8 / 1137568038 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-56803-8 / 9781137568038 |
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