" Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge:
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert�…

The rise of modern science stirred up a mix of unease and exhilaration that profoundly
influenced early modern English literature. During the scientific revolution, the dominant�…

Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of
publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge�…

'Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body', wrote Richard Steele in his periodical
paper, the Tatler, in 1710. 1 By the middle of the eighteenth century, readers of all classes�…

The idea of literature, it has often been noted, is of relatively recent emergence. In Foucault's
version of the claim, the idea was born of a radical realignment of the disciplines of�…

It was argued some years ago that the English" Battle of the Books" of the late seventeenth
century was just another phase in a long Renaissance humanist querelle des anciens et des�…

Studies of hermeneutics have rarely dealt with eighteenth-century British thought, yet during
this period debates over the interpretation of texts plagued and invigorated religious�…

In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson argues that the early modern English
believed their affections and behavior were influenced by hidden sympathies and�…

If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with" black boxes," their success may be
gauged by their relative invisibility--and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian�…

This comprehensive anthology collects in one volume primary texts and documents relevant
to literature, culture and intellectual life in England from 1550 to 1660. Through both well�…