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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rogers, John

Titel

The Matter of Revolution : Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• John Rogers here 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 intersection 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