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In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind.Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 juin 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501723421
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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LIGHT WITHOUT HEAT

THE OBSE RVAT I ONALMOOD F ROM BACONTO MI LTON

D av i d C a r r o l l S i m o n

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Simon, David Carroll, author. Title: Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017048069 (print) | LCCN 2017052392 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501723414 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501723421 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501723407 | ISBN 9781501723407 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Literature and science—England— History—17th century. | English literature—Early modern, 15001700—History and criticism. | Observation (Scientific method)—England—History— 17th century. | Philosophy of nature in literature. | Empiricism in literature. | Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626— Influence. | England—Intellectual life—17th century. Classification: LCC PR438.S37 (ebook) | LCC PR438.S37 S56 2018 (print) | DDC 820.9/004—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048069

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For Jerry

Across the parloryouprovide examples, Wide open, sunny, of everything I am Not. You embrace a whole world without once caring To set it in order.

—James Merrill

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Atmospheres of Understanding: Scientific Emotion and Literary Criticism 1. “Nonchalance” and the Making of Knowledge: Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne 2. The Angle of Thought: Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the Scientific Imagination

3. The Microscope Made Easy: Andrew Marvell with Henry Power 4. The Paradise Without: John Milton in the Garden Postscript

Notes 219 Works Cited 277 Index 291

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I am grateful to my mentors at the University of California, Berkeley, who exemplify the open-ended, generous, patient expectancy this book calls “the observational mood.” Victoria Kahn has been an important source of counsel and encouragement since the very begin-ning of the research that led to the writing of this book. Timothy Hampton made the literature of the French Renaissance come alive for me, and I am thankful for his ongoing engagement. Judith Butler helped me think through some of this project’s conceptual knots; her searching practice of reading is an inspiration. I owe particular thanks to Joanna Picciotto, with whom this book is often in conversation: a necessary friend and treasured interlocutor. My thinking in these pages also bears the imprint of illuminating conver-sations with the late Janet Adelman, Anne-Lise François, Kevis Goodman, and Barbara Spackman, as well as formative experiences from my under-graduate years at Brown University—in the classrooms of Susan Bernstein, Elliott Colla, Nicolás Wey-Gómez, Meredith Steinbach, Arnold Weinstein, and Esther Whitfield. During my time in Berkeley and in San Francisco, I also incurred great debts to Andrea Gadberry, Amanda Jo Goldstein, Lily Gurton-Wachter, and (a friend from previous lives as well) Tristram Wolff, not only for talking my ideas through with me but also, more recently, for reading and responding to portions of this book. For creating a happy and lively world of intellectual exchange (and for much else) in the Bay Area, thanks are likewise due to Corey Byrnes, Colin Dingler, Katrina Dodson, Tom McEnaney, Julia Otis, Lealah Pollock, and Toby Warner. My colleagues in the English Department at the University of Chicago have shaped this book in many ways, and I am grateful for the seriousness of their engagement. I owe special thanks to Joshua Scodel, who has read every chapter with care. The book is much better for it. For their generous responses to pieces of the manuscript, I am grateful to Bill Brown, Maud Ell-man, Frances Ferguson, Tim Harrison, Mark Miller, Michael Murrin, Larry Rothfield, Lisa Ruddick, and Richard Strier. For our ongoing interchange of

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