1st Edition
Milton and the New Scientific Age Poetry, Science, Fiction
Biography
Dr. Catherine Martin received her Ph.D at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Martin's chief interests lie in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and philosophy, specializing particularly in the lyric, religious, and epic poetry of the period. Her first book on Paradise Lost won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award, its highest honor. Her recent work on the latter two centers particularly on their French and Italian influences and connections. She has also published on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, although more extensively on John Donne and Francis Bacon. Forthcoming works will continue to revisit Bacon's legacy in both science (in this period better understood as empirical method in various arts) and in early science fiction. Last but hardly least, Dr. Martin teaches the writings of the "first feminists" who appeared in the seventeenth century and has edited an important essay collection entitled Milton and Gender (Cambridge, 2004)
"A much-needed study of an insufficiently examined topic, this groundbreaking collection demonstrates the value of, and need for, interdisciplinary approaches to literature and scientific treatises of this period."
--P. E. Phillips, Middle Tennessee State University, Highly Recommended by CHOICE
"The diversity of the assembled essays is evidence of the extraordinary richness of the topic. It is after all not so much a single topic as a set of related ones, and this volume takes up an enormous range of issues including experimental method, astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, and medicine."
--David Carroll Simon, Milton Quarterly
