The Anamorphic Imaginationand The Empirical Body: Perspectiveand The Embodiment of Space and Text in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-CenturyScience

JenBoyle, University of California, Irvine

Departmentof English and Comparative Literature

Project Context: Dialogic Phenomenology -- Looking Askance At and Across the Chaos ofMathematical "Meaningless"  and Metaphoric Perspectives  [project context.htm]

Outline of ProjectedChapters:

I. The Anamorphic Imaginationand Empirical Authority: John Milton's Paradise Lost and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko [Chapter One.htm]

II. The 'Inner' City:Restoration London, the Laboratorium, and  Dialectic Versus Dialogic"Seeing" in Samuel Pepys's Diary [ Chapter Two.htm]

III. The Theater of Labor andthe Mechanization of "Native Liberty" [Chapter Three.htm]

IV. Binaries, the Romance ofCalculus, and the Troubling Female Monad: Newton/Leibniz -- Margaret Cavendish [Chapter Four.htm]

V. Science, GenderedNationalism, and the Sightline of Encyclopedic Empiricism in EarlyEighteenth-Century England, Ireland, and France:  Defoe, Swift, and Diderot [Chapter Five.htm]