English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century

Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto) has published on topics of literary and intellectual history such as the traditions of utopianism, the history of translation, and the relationship between English literature and philosophy between the Augustan Age and Romanticism. Miguel Ramalhete Gomes is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Porto. He recently published Texts Waiting for History: William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller (Rodopi, 2014). His research interests include Early Modern Drama, Irish Studies, and Utopian Studies.

List of Figures
Introduction
 Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Forethought: A Trade for Lightand the State of the Art
 George Rousseau

Part 1: Engendering Space, Creating Meaning
1 Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa
 Bernhard Klein
2 The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material
 Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
3 A World of One’s Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning
 Kate De Rycker
4 The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology
 Mihaela Irimia

Part 2: Forms of Discourse and Sociability
5 From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick
 Maria Avxentevskaya
6 “Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric”: Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature
 Richard Nate
7 Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks
 Jorge Bastos da Silva
8 Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela
 Daniel Essig García
9 Quackery, “Chymistry” and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
 Wojciech Nowicki

Index