Description
About the Author
Erin Webster is an Assistant Professor of English at William & Mary, where she teaches courses in early modern literature, including Milton, and on the intersection of literature and scientific thought.
Reviews
To traverse from calculus to optics to poetry to imperialism to theology to baroque architecture to the moon: it is the rare mind that can stretch so far, and with such precision and care. * Wendy Beth Hyman, Restoration *
This study manages both crucial attention to detail and a carefully articulated historical arc, and Webster offers throughout generous and informative syntheses of others' critical arguments before going on to delineate her own and often more nuanced position. * Eileen Reeves, Princeton University., Seventeenth-Century News *
Anyone interested in early modern seeing can find delightful details in The Curious Eye. * Yijie Huang, Journal of British Studies *
The Curious Eye offers readers an expansive account of the relationship among early modern optical theory, philosophy, and literature; it will greatly interest anyone studying the history of science, technology, or literary analysis...this book remains a remarkable achievement in literary and historical analysis, and it is sure to benefit students and scholars alike. * J. Antonio Templanza, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Milton Quarterly *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198850199
Author Erin Webster
Format Hardback
Page Count 226
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 22mm