A Woman’s Optics: Margaret Cavendish, Sensory Mimesis, and Early Modern Rhetorics of Science

Autor:	Megan Poole
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Focus (computing) Literature and Literary Theory Aesthetics Communication media_common.quotation_subject Rhetorical question Art Language and Linguistics media_common
Zdroj:	Journal for the History of Rhetoric. 24:195-222
ISSN:	2687-8011 2687-8003
DOI:	10.1080/26878003.2021.1920246
Popis:	Accounts of the rhetorical tradition in early modern England often focus on the Royal Society of London and the scientific epistemologies and visual pedagogies surrounding technologies like the microscope. One critic of the Royal Society, Margaret Cavendish, theorized her own optics to counter the increasing exclusivity of the scientific community. An analysis of this woman’s optics reveals how the rhetorical concept of mimesis brought a theory of embodied, material sight to a historical moment in which objectivity was emerging. This critically imaginative analysis thus brings forth an early rhetorics of science in which alternative epistemologies may critique mechanical, experimental processes and argue for more inclusive scientific methods.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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