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...Rita Copeland Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 LYDGATE, WWES, AND THE SCIENCE OF RHETORIC IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Bp RITA COPELAND In literary histories and critical studies of the English fifteenth cen- tury it has...

... on an informed understanding of new ideas, and aimed roughly in their direction. The temptation to describe a grand cultural struggle between the humanities and the sciences is strong, and humanists’ sources of information about science are often out of date. As a result, arguments that purport to critique new...

...Noel Jackson Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature . By Mitchell Robert . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . viii + 309 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Romanticism’s interest in the forms of scientific...

...Francis R. Johnson Lynn Thorndike. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Vol. V, pp. xxii + 695; vol. VI, pp. xviii + 766. $10.00. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 Francis R. Johnson 115 A History of Magic and Experimental Science...

...Ted Underwood Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Ted Underwood is visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is revising a book titled The Labor Done by the Sun: Theories of Work as Natural Force, 1780–1840 . The Science in Shelley’s...

... loi, la libertk et le gouvernement anglais. By MONTES- QUIEU. With an introductory essay by ROGERB. OAKE. Pp. xiv + 46. Introduction ii Phistoire de la litte‘rature anglaise. By H. TAINE. Avec des remarques prkliminaires par GILBERTCHINARD. Pp. xix + 29. Les Sciences de la...

...Andrea Henderson The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender . By Michael Tondre . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2018 . ix + 230 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 The Physics of Possibility offers a fresh...

...Elisha Cohn References Coombs David Sweeney . 2019 . Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Ward Megan . 2018 . Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character . Columbus...

...Erin Webster [email protected] Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science . By Debapriya Sarkar . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2023 . 265 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms...

... University Camille Jullian: Un demi-si2cle de science historique et de progrks frangais, 1880-1930. Par ALBERTGRENIER de l’Institut, Professeur d’AntiquitCs Nationales au Collitge de France. Paris : Albin Michel, 1944. Pp. 316. 78 francs. Cette biographie retrace d’une maniitre...

... is like that presented by any other major poet, including Shakespeare. BENTS STIRLINC University of Washington 77ae Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Efect of the “New Science” upon Seventeenth Century Poetry. By MARJORIEHOPE...

... Thurmond (2004). University of Washington 2006 A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought . By Stephen Kern. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 437 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England...

...Haifa Saud Alfaisal Abstract In 1902 Rūḥī al-Khālidī produced what may be the first modern work of comparative criticism in Arabic. In his History of the Science of Literature , Khālidī (1864–1913), a Palestinian polyglot, used the discourse of literary criticism to develop a modern understanding...

...Stephen Leo Carr Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE IDEOLOGY OF ANTITHESIS SCIENCE VERSUS LITERATURE AND THE EXEMPLARY CASE OF J. S. MILL By STEPHENLEO CARR The antithesis...

... been a major one, a vade mecum for a very important dimension of Shakespeare’s art. JOHN W. VELZ University of Texas Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relation- ships between Natural Science...

.... F. J. LEVY University of Washington Milton and the Science of the Saints. By GEORGIAB. CHRISTOPHER.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xii + 264 pp. $22.50. Georgia B. Christopher would do for Milton what Roland M. Frye has done for Shakespeare-would return to Luther...

.... PRICE University of California at Berkeley Natural Science in German Romanticism. By ALEXANDERGODE- VON AESCH. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xiii + 302. $3.00. Believing that the problems of Goethe’s era, like those of Goethe’s thought, can best...

...Francis R. Johnson; Sanford V. Larkey Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ∗ This survey of the present state of scholarship in the field of Renaissance science was planned jointly by the two collaborators in 1939, and was intended to include the subject of medicine. Dr...

... to Science, Language, and Human Experience. By THOMASCLARK POLLOCK. Princeton University Press, 1942. Pp. xxiv + 218. $3.00. This book is one of the rather large number of studies whose ultimate ancestor is Ogden and Richards’ Meaning of Meaning. Its primary purpose is to make...