This monograph documents the development of two cultures and disciplines: science and literature--through a shared aesthetic of knowledge. It brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature, ranging from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fiction of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish.

Tracing the cultural legacy of the Norman Conquest in England from 1350 to 1600, Deanne Williams demonstrates how English literature emerged out of a simultaneous engagement with, and resistance to, the presence of French language and culture in medieval and early modern England. Chapters on Chaucer, the Corpus Christi Plays, William Caxton, early Tudor poetry, and Shakespeare examine a variety of English responses to, and representations of, France and "the French."

Exploring how attitudes toward human emotions changed in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this book emphasizes the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton, and John Milton. Douglas Trevor asserts that 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes influenced the methods by which these writers came to analyze their own moods.

Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Accounting for the significance of the space offstage, where most sexual acts take place, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage. She draws together questions about sexuality and the sacred, in the bodies--of Christ and of woman--banished from the early modern English stage.

Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading.

Laura Levine examines the ways in which Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and the stage.

When two shady partners are intent on flying to a neighbouring city to eclipse their competitors in a highly profitable real estate deal, flight school owner Robin Carruthers forewarns them that risking flight into an approaching storm would be suicidal. But not only the skies prove to be deadly. The partners' sudden demise in two seemingly unrelated accidents pitch Robin into a tempest of treachery where her flagging faith, her own integrity and that of St. Matthew's Anglican Church, are thrust into major turbulence. The stakes fly high for life, land and spiritual loyalty. In a dramatic...

Nobody liked him But when the administrator at St. Matthew's Anglican Church turns up dead in the church office, the hunt is on to find the person with enough of a motive to murder him. Suspicion falls on the church secretary, and Robin Carruthers, church member and flying school operator, feels compelled to exonerate her friend. While struggling to solve the murder, Robin becomes entangled in trying to understand the even greater mystery of faith.

It is the Easter season, but not all is light and love at St. Matthew's Anglican Church. A church member has uncovered a fraud among his business clients, but before he can identify the culprit, he is shot through the heart. Robin Carruthers, church member and flight instructor, must unravel the mystery, which is woven into the operation of her flying school and the romantic entanglements of two of her friends, threatening their lives, and testing her fledgling faith.