STS 6231

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STS 6231
A New Atlantis: Early Modern Literature, Science, and Empire

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This interdisciplinary seminar introduces the fields of literature and science studies, with a particular focus on early modern natural history and philosophy. How did early moderns produce authoritative knowledge about the body, the natural world, and the cosmos? What discourses and practices enabled claims to knowledge before the coherence of a single entity called science? What did early moderns do when they composed a poem or performed an experiment? How did those practices inform one another, if they did? We will survey a range of genres, including drama, poetry, romance, philosophical prose, the familiar essay, the humanist letter, and the experimental report. The seminar will also feature scholarship from the history of science, science and technology studies, philosophy of science, literary theory and literary criticism.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6230

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16524 STS 6231   SEM 101

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