Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry
Author: Ludmila Makuchowska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-10-16
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1443869759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s religious and erotic poetry, focusing on the intersection of two seemingly antithetical discourses: the language of the scientific revolution and of Christian eschatology. Throughout its three chapters, which correspond to three scientific disciplines – cartography, physics and alchemy – the volume examines the ways in which the references to early modern and medieval science in Donne’s poetry contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.