Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library) - Image 1

£67.06

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library)

Name: Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library)
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Price: 67.06 GBP
Availability: InStock

Renaissance

Price data last checked 101 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 11 months ago.

£67 today · all-time low £67 (Jul 2025) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 630 days • 630 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 630 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £69 (218 days, 34.6%)

Price range: £67 - £77

Price levels: 4 different prices over 630 days

Description

"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still held. Humanism thus came to share the status of alchemy: a way of thinking simultaneously productive and suspect, reasonable and wrongheaded. Eggert argues that English writers used alchemy to signal how to avoid or camouflage pressing but discomfiting topics in an age of rapid intellectual change. Disknowledge describes how John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, William Harvey, Helkiah Crooke, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare used alchemical imagery, rhetoric, and habits of thought to shunt aside three difficult questions: how theories of matter shared their physics with Roman Catholic transubstantiation; how Christian Hermeticism depended on Jewish Kabbalah; and how new anatomical learning acknowledged women's role in human reproduction. Disknowledge further shows how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Margaret Cavendish used the language of alchemy to castigate humanism for its blind spots and to invent a new, posthumanist mode of knowledge: writing fiction. Covering a wide range of authors and topics, Disknowledge is the first book to analyze how English Renaissance literature employed alchemy to probe the nature and limits of learning. The concept of disknowledge—willfully adhering to something we know is wrong—resonates across literary and cultural studies as an urgent issue of our own era.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0812247515
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Renaissance
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 29 October 2015
Listed Since: 18 March 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 11 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700: From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts (Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy)

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)

Routledge - Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England

Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries: 140 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 140)

Science Reading Renaissance Lit: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670: 46 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 46)

The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France

An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) (Universal Reform: Studies in Intellectual History, 1550-1700)

Alchemy: The Hidden Rituals of Time and Control

A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery

Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle (Routledge Revivals)

Alchemy - The Divine Work: Concerning Humanity's transformation from lead to gold and the transcendent Immanence of consciousness

Magical Epistemologies: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern English Drama

Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde

John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion (Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy)

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)

Alchemy of Light: The Bromoil Collection Vol.2

Alchemy in Contemporary Art

Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections

Spenser`s Allegory – The Anatomy of Imagination: 1363 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415423198?tag=tosheroon-21