{"product_id":"john-donnes-physics-9780226833514","title":"John Donne's Physics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA reimagining of \u003ci\u003eDevotions upon Emergent Occasions\u003c\/i\u003e as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne published \u003ci\u003eDevotions upon Emergent Occasions\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that recorded his near-death experience during a deadly epidemic in London. Four hundred years later, in the aftermath of our own pandemic, Harvey and Harrison show how \u003ci\u003eDevotions \u003c\/i\u003ecrystalizes the power, beauty, and enduring strangeness of Donne's thinking. Arguing that Donne saw human life in light of emergent ideas in the study of nature (physics) and the study of the body (physick), \u003ci\u003eJohn Donne's Physics\u003c\/i\u003e reveals \u003ci\u003eDevotions \u003c\/i\u003eas a culminating achievement, a radically new literary form that uses poetic techniques to depict Donne's encounter with death in a world transformed by new discoveries and knowledge systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth D. Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, a literary critic, and a psychoanalyst. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently \u003ci\u003eLuce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy M. Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eComing To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50489088639250,"sku":"9780226833514","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48003d3c-2a2e-4265-b10d-e2ec23e24b0a.jpg?v=1730488295","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/john-donnes-physics-9780226833514","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}