...Susan Kollin Set in 1970, T. C. Boyle's Drop City (2003) follows a group of commune dwellers who abandon the Golden State in search of a new Eden in the “last frontier.” For Boyle's characters, California is no longer a haven once their commune is condemned as a health hazard and bulldozed...

...,” such as “degenerate Natural Magic, Alchemy, Astrology, and the like” (4:89). Yet for Robert Boyle, every bit as experimentalist as Bacon, belief was a neces- sary component of scientific knowledge. InLeviathan and the Air-­Pump, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer ([1985] 2011) point out that “Boyle proposed...

... work increased dramatically. William Petty, a future member of the Royal Society, proposed in 1648 a "gymnasium mechanicum or a college of tradesmen," and the following year Hartlib wrote a 22-year old Robert Boyle that "Fauxhall [Vauxhall Gardens and Mansion] is to be sett apart for public...

... on descriptive and figurative lan- guage to reconstruct the scene of the experiment for readers who weren t there. Experimentalists like Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke availed themselves of liter- ary techniques to portray scientific practice as legitimate and reliable and to build an epistemic community...

... interest in their personalities beyond that of their work. This is, in the words of one contemporary scholar of celebrity culture, simultaneous “identification and distancing” (Johansson 2006, 349). McAlmon’s memoir Being Geniuses Together (McAlmon and Boyle 1984) at first glance appears...

... by contextualizing it in its genre. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited 28 Days Later … . 2002 . Directed by Boyle Danny . London : DNA Films . 28 Weeks Later . 2007 . Directed by Fresnadillo Juan Carlos . London : DNA Films . The American Nightmare . 2000...

... Arundhati . 1997 . The God of Small Things . New York : Random House . Slumdog Millionaire . 2008 . Directed by Boyle Danny Tandan Loveleen . London : Celador Films . The Sound of Mumbai . 2011 . Directed by McCarthy Sarah . New York : HBO Documentary Films...

...-Blackwell . Austenfeld Thomas Carl . 2001 . American Woman Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia . Bacon Peggy . 1927 . “Kindred Spirits.” New Masses , October , 14 . Brinkmeyer...

... not for pedantry.” It would “advance the knowledge” by teaching “science” as developed by Bacon, Newton, Boyle, and others. This program would indeed “polish taste,” arguably along lines closer to Smith's lectures than to those Guillory ascribes to Gray's “Elegy.” Admittedly Hurd also hopes that “the forms...

..., March 15. Barnett, Michael. 2011. Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Basu, Mari. 2012. “As Criticism Surfaces, ‘KONY 2012’ Gains Momentum Faster Than Susan Boyle.” CNN, March 13. edition.cnn.com/2012/03/09/world/africa /uganda...

... of rhetoric, and its literary dimension undisputed. While careful not to completely collapse history and fiction, eighteenth-century theorists from Boyle to Voltaire and De Mably recognized that the real events of historical discourse could only be presented to the reader by means of fictional...

... are writers on specialist subjects, such as medicine (Arbuthnot), the law (Cowel), physicks (Boyle), chymistry ("Ray on the Creation") and innumerable writers on theology, who are used for terms connected with their own subjects. 3) There is the kind of writer who writes in order...

... (1905) — or even with other comedies — Wolfgang Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1791), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008) — by emphasiz- ing Hamlet’s reversal of fortune. Each of these readings is valid in its respec- tive context, however much...