
The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. Standing at the threshold of early modern culture, this key text incorporates the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Contributors consider the book's use of rhetoric, its narrative contexts, its political and ethical implications, its relation to the natural knowledge of the period, and the function of miracles in New Atlantan society. The politics of colonialism and Jewish toleration, its complex representation of gender, and the role and politics of censorship are also explored. This volume will be the ideal companion to Bacon's The New Atlantis and for all students of literature, politics, history, cultural history and history of science.
- Contents
- Series introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction - BRONWEN PRICE
- 2 Narrative contexts for Bacon’s New Atlantis - PAUL SALZMAN
- 3 Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis - SARAH HUTTON
- 4 Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis - DAVID COLCLOUGH
- 5 Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis - RICHARD SERJEANTSON
- 6 On the miracles in Bacon’s New Atlantis - JERRY WEINBERGER
- 7 ‘Books will speak plain’? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon’s New Atlantis - CLAIRE JOWITT
- 8 ‘Strange things so probably told’: gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon’s New Atlantis - KATE AUGHTERSON
- 9 Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon’s New Atlantis - SIMON WORTHAM
- Notes on contributors
- Select bibliography
- Index
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