{"product_id":"9780822378808","title":"TEST1 New Science, New World","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNew Science, New World\u003c\/i\u003e Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century—modern science and colonialism. Drawing on the discourse analysis of Foucault, the ideology-critique of Marxist cultural studies, and de Certeau’s assertion that the modern world produces itself through alterity, she argues that the beginnings of colonialism are intertwined in complex fashion with the ways in which the literary became the exotic “other” and undervalued opposite of the scientific.\u003cbr\u003eAlbanese reads the inaugurators of the scientific revolution against the canonical authors of early modern literature, discussing Galileo’s \u003ci\u003eDialogue on the Two Chief World Systems\u003c\/i\u003e and Bacon’s \u003ci\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Milton’s \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e. She examines how the newness or “novelty” of investigating nature is expressed through representations of the New World, including the native, the feminine, the body, and the heavens. “New” is therefore shown to be a double sign, referring both to the excitement associated with a knowledge oriented away from past practices, and to the oppression and domination typical of the colonialist enterprise. Exploring the connections between the New World and the New Science, and the simultaneously emerging patterns of thought and forms of writing characteristic of modernity, Albanese insists that science is at its inception a form of power-knowledge, and that the modern and postmodern division of “Two Cultures,” the literary and the scientific, has its antecedents in the early modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Science, New World\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to feminist, new historicist, and cultural materialist debates about the extent to which the culture of seventeenth-century England is proto-modern. It will offer scholars and students from a wide range of fields a new critical model for historical practice.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124168769776,"sku":"9780822378808","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822378808_p0.jpg?v=1763750896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822378808","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}