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  1. The matter of revolution
    science, poetry, and politics in the age of Milton
    Author: Rogers, John
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y

    John Rogers addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersections between the English and Scientific... more

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    John Rogers addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersections between the English and Scientific Revolutions, concentrating on a body of work created in a brief but potent burst of intellectual activity during the period of the Civil Wars, the Interregnum, and the earliest years of the Stuart Restoration. Rogers traces the broad implications of a seemingly outlandish cultural phenomenon: the intellectual imperative to forge an ontological connection between physical motion and political action. The work of the writers whom Rogers discusses - John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Gerrard Winstanley, William Harvey, and Margaret Cavendish - spans the spectrum of genres from medical treatise to epic poem. Despite their differences, each text participates in or reacts to one of the least understood intellectual movements in early modern England, a short-lived embrace of philosophical idealism that Rogers identifies as the Vitalist Moment. Each writer, he asserts, struggled to reconcile the new materialist science of corpuscular motion and interaction with the new political philosophy of popular sovereignty and consensus The power of matter in the English Revolution -- Marvell, Winstanley, and the natural history of the green age -- Marvell and the action of virginity -- Chaos, creation, and the political science of Paradise lost -- Milton and the mysterious terms of history -- Margaret Cavendish and the gendering of the vitalist utopia -- Conclusion : Adamant liberals : the failure of the matter of revolution

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0801432383; 1501729829; 9780801432385; 9781501729829
    Subjects: Politics and literature; Literature and science; English literature
    Other subjects: Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-); Harvey, William (1578-1657); Milton, John (1608-1674): Paradise lost; Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of (1624?-1674); Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 257 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index

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