List of Approved ESS Electives - Nature Imagined: Literature and Science in Early Modern Europe EMSP 2330   Nature Imagined: Literature and Science in Early Modern Europe
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries brought about massive changes in the scientific world view. These changes also had a great influence on the literature of the period. Some writers were entranced by the new natural science, and sought to disseminate its principles and lionize its most significant figures. Other writers were harshly critical of the emerging notions of scientific progress and domination of nature. This course will examine the ways in which science was portrayed in early modern poetry, prose, and drama, in an attempt to understand how the new science, and new conceptions of nature, were understood and received in the broader philosophical and cultural context.
FORMAT:

• Lecture
• Seminar

EXCLUSIONS: EMSP 2340.03 and HSTC 2340.03