Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

New Atlantis | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

Fuller, Jean Overton. Francis Bacon: A Biography. London: East-West Publications, 1981, 384 p.

Chronicles Bacon's life and works from his infancy to his death.

Green, A. Wigfall. Sir Francis Bacon: His Life and Works. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1952, 296 p.

Describes how the "broadened intellectual vision resulting from the Renaissance" affected Bacon's quest for knowledge as a visionary, scientist, statesman, and philosopher.

Criticism

Achinstein, Sharon. "How To Be a Progressive without Looking Like One: History and Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis." CLIO 17, No. 3 (Spring 1988): 249-64

Describes how "Bacon's New Atlantis presents the conflict between innovation and tradition as it focuses on the question of new knowledge."

Bierman, Judah. "Science and Society in the New...

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