John Donne's Physics by Harvey, Elizabeth D.

John Donne's Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226833507)

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John Donne's Physics by Harvey, Elizabeth D.

John Donne's Physics

$99.00
John Donne's Physics by Harvey, Elizabeth D.

John Donne's Physics

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine.

In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne published Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a book that recorded his near-death experience during a deadly epidemic in London. Four hundred years later, in the aftermath of our own pandemic, Harvey and Harrison show how Devotions crystalizes the power, beauty, and enduring strangeness of Donne's thinking. Arguing that Donne saw human life in light of emergent ideas in the study of nature (physics) and the study of the body (physick), John Donne's Physics reveals Devotions as a culminating achievement, a radically new literary form that uses poetic techniques to depict Donne's encounter with death in a world transformed by new discoveries and knowledge systems.

Author: Elizabeth D. Harvey, Timothy M. Harrison
ISBN-10: 022683350X
ISBN-13: 9780226833507
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

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By Elizabeth D. Harvey
By Elizabeth D. Harvey
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Elizabeth D. Harvey is professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, a literary critic, and a psychoanalyst. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History. Timothy M. Harrison is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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