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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John RogersPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801485251ISBN 10: 0801485258 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 21 May 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn important book. . . Rogers draws a vivid picture of an intellectual movement with implications that cut across the ideological spectrum, and he offers an ingenious account of how those implications were worked out . . . Students of the intersections of poetry, politics, and science cannot afford to miss this book. -Modern Philology Rogers, who moves easily between obscure scientific treatise and the poetry of Milton and Marvell, shows how thinking about physical motion-the relation between objects and systems-was enmeshed with thinking about political action, and suggests that the Vitalist Moment helped spawn what would become political liberalism. -The New Yorker This is one of the most original and prospectively seminal studies to date of a particular era, the brief period between 1649 and 1666, the so-called 'Vitalist Moment,' which encompasses the English civil wars, the interregnum, and the onset of the Stuart Restoration... Rogers is always decorous, deeply insightful, cogent, and lucid. The deeper value of this book ... derives from its astute analysis of an intellectual climate. Intellectual history at its best. Most highly recommended. -Choice An important book... Rogers draws a vivid picture of an intellectual movement with implications that cut across the ideological spectrum, and he offers an ingenious account of how those implications were worked out ... Students of the intersections of poetry, politics, and science cannot afford to miss this book. -Modern Philology A fascinating book that sheds light on a wide range of issues that were absolutely central to seventeenth-century English culture. Rogers helps to reconfigure the fault lines between seventeenth-century literary, scientific, and political discourses, and he provides genuinely new readings of some of the major literary figures of the age. -Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley A fascinating book that sheds light on a wide range of issues that were absolutely central to seventeenth-century English culture. Rogers helps to reconfigure the fault lines between seventeenth-century literary, scientific, and political discourses, and he provides genuinely new readings of some of the major literary figures of the age. Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationJohn Rogers is Associate Professor of English at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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