Book description
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
2. Narrative contexts for Bacon’s New Atlantis
3. Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric and the New Atlantis
4. Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis
5. Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis
6. On the miracles in Bacon’s New Atlantis
7. "Books will speak plain"? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon’s New Atlantis
8. "Strange things so probably told": gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon’s New Atlantis
9. Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon’s New Atlantis
