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Dark works: Poison and the emerging epistemologies of early modern England.

机译：黑暗作品：毒药和近代早期英格兰新兴的认识论。

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In my dissertation, I explore a span of roughly one hundred years---from the 1540s to the 1640s---in which the idea of poison moves fluidly and rapidly through English culture. I argue that by forcing new interpretations of physical objects and actions, literary depictions of poison and poisoners in the period call into question the means whereby individuals know and understand the world around. Poison's ability to generate epistemological confusion extends from the physical realm of emerging science, through the legal and theological, and into the literary as writers struggle to differentiate between the natural and unnatural, between differences of degree and differences of kind. This project involves works from canonical literary writers, such as Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, and Spenser, as well as lesser known works produced by doctors, popular pamphlet writers, and writers on the law, theology, and politics. Throughout this project, I am interested in what the threat of poison has to tell us about the costs accrued in the creation and establishment of knowledge. Such as examination is especially important as the interplay between the period's fear of poison and its interest in how we "know what we know" speaks directly to current early modern scholarship on science, objectivity, and the development of legal frameworks.
机译：在我的论文中，我探索了大约一百年的时间-从1540年代到1640年代-在这个时期中，毒药的思想在英国文化中流动迅速。我认为，通过强迫对物理对象和行为进行新的解释，在那个时期对毒药和中毒者的文学描写会质疑个人认识和理解周围世界的手段。毒药产生认识论混乱的能力从新兴科学的物理领域，到法律和神学，再到文学，因为作家努力区分自然与非自然，程度差异和种类差异。该项目涉及莎士比亚，培根，多恩和斯宾塞等经典文学作家的作品，以及医生，大众小册子作家以及法律，神学和政治作家的鲜为人知的作品。在整个项目中，我对毒物威胁要告诉我们的知识创造和建立所产生的成本感兴趣。诸如此类的考试尤为重要，因为这段时期对毒药的恐惧与其对我们如何“了解自己的知识”的兴趣之间的相互作用直接说明了当前有关科学，客观性和法律框架发展的现代学者。

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  • 作者

    Wilson, Miranda.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.;

  • 授予单位 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.;
  • 学科 English literature.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 213 p.
  • 总页数 213
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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