Böcker av Catherine Gimelli Martin

Examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. The volume's main theme is Bacon's core interest in identifying and conceptualizing coherent intellectual disciplines, including the central question of whether Bacon succeeded in creating unified discourses about learning.

Offering texts on a variety of aspects of the Anglo-French Renaissance instead of concentrating on one set of borrowings or phenomena, this collection points to new configurations of the relationships among national literatures. Contributors address specific borrowings, rewritings and appropriations of French writing by English authors.

Challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. This title not only questions the habit of 'lumping' Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle utterly inconsistent with godly beliefs and practices.

In a reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of PARADISE LOST, Catherine Martin presents Milton's poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. Maintaining a dialogue with a critical tradition that extends from Johnson and Coleridge to the best contemporary Milton scholarship, Martin sets PARADISE LOST in both the early modern and the postmodern worlds.