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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"New Atlantis"”.
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
… The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1655) to reveal its incompleteness and contradictions. In particular, the making of the modern body relied on the very humoral theory and cosmology of correspondence to which it is …
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A universal key : utopias and universals in JM Coetzee's The childhood of Jesus
… Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis and George Orwell’s dystopia in 1984. The aim of these comparisons is to show that Coetzee, although playing on the styles and structures of the utopian tradition in The Childhood of Jesus, does so ultimately to reject the idea of a …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… in More's Utopia itself. More wanted to see new science and technique developed. But he also condemned the social consequences which inevitably flowed from the process of discovery. These consequences led More to create a utopia based on social reorganisation. In the main, the utopias of …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… a close with James’ death and the emergence of a new kind of Solomonic figure, proposed by Francis Bacon in his prose fiction *New Atlantis* (1627): the scientist. The concept of Solomonic magical exceptionalism is thus essential for understanding distinctly early modern depictions of dangerous …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
… to pure experimentalism. By envisioning a new planet to place the utopia of Blazing World, Cavendish actively uses the rational functions of the mind, showing that reason and rational matter are above all else in natural philosophy.</p> <p>Although Cavendish's scientific theory in some ways …