{"product_id":"spectacular-science-technology-and-superstition-sophie-chiari-9781474427821","title":"Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores the interaction between science, literature and spectacle in Shakespeare's era\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy. By exploring particular aspects of Shakespearean drama, this collection illustrates how literature and science were inextricably linked in the early modern period. In order to bridge the gap between Renaissance literature and early modern science, the essays collected here focus on a complex intellectual territory situated at the point of juncture between humanism, natural magic and craftsmanship. It is argued that science and literature constantly interacted, thus revealing that what we now call 'literature' and what we choose to describe as 'science' were not clear-cut categories in Shakespeare's days but rather a part of common intellectual territory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyses different aspects of Shakespeare's plays through the prism of early modern science \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSheds fresh light on major works such as the Sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines theoretical views, historical approaches, and close readings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an innovative dialectic vision of the Shakespeare\/science nexus, taking up Mazzio's seminal idea that it is now necessary to \"move beyond forms of analysis focused largely on thematic traces of, or indeed linguistic reflections of, historically specific arenas of scientific practice\" \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLinks science and spectacle and posits that early modern theatre fashioned the reception of early modern discoveries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePays attention to systems of thought which bind together scientific and literary discourses, practices and mentalities within a single episteme (in Michel Foucault's interpretation of the word)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophie Chiari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474427820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474427821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Sophie Chiari","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935511740671,"sku":"9781474427821","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_88ac2375-c9f3-4db2-b3d0-545a062a46de.jpg?v=1681420223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spectacular-science-technology-and-superstition-sophie-chiari-9781474427821","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}