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Mellon Science & Print Culture Workshop: Master Chaucer and Old, Dull Aristotle: Printing Poetry and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England
| Location: | Wisconsin, United States |
| Lecture Date: | 2011-03-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-02-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
183321 |
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Kellie Robertson
Associate Professor, Department of English (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Master Chaucer and Old, Dull Aristotle: Printing Poetry and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England
Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 4:30pm
Memorial Library, Special Collections (room 984)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chaucer's contemporaries regularly recognized him as the heir to Aristotle's natural philosophy, the body of scientific knowledge that today we would equate with "physics." This lecture looks briefly at the confluence of fiction and physics in manuscript culture in order to ask what happens to it in early print culture, where the rise of Chaucer's fortunes as the "father of English poetry," found an inverse correlate in Aristotle's vernacular reputation as a natural philosopher. This illustrated lecture traces the consolidation of Chaucer's literary reputation as a phenomenon worked out against a nascent literary criticism where 'Aristotle' came to name (in English at least) the author of the Politics and Ethics rather than the author of the university science curriculum. Modern disciplinary divisions continue to foster this "de-natured" view of Chaucer, obscuring the extent to which medieval natural philosophy and poetry influenced one another both in manuscript and, later, in print.
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This program is part of the A.W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison with support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the College of Letters and Science. Co-sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture.
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