Francis Bacon's "Jewish Dreams": The Specter of the Millennium in New Atlantis.
Increasingly, attention is being given to the religious underpinnings of Francis Bacon's project to reform natural philosophy. Within this discussion, however, his vital invocations of Jewish religion and culture have been ignored or represented as largely static and unproblematic, rather than under...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 110; no. 1; pp. 115 - 132 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of North Carolina Press
Winter2013
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