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Article: Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of Truth in English Renaissance Culture.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2002
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Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of Truth in English Renaissance Culture. By DIANA B. ALTEGOER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 210 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].
Recent literary critics and historians working on Renaissance texts have generally been at the very least sceptical about the explanatory claims of psychoanalytic strategies of interpretation; most, indeed, see fit to ignore them altogether. Criticism influenced by the New Historicism, focused anyway on issues of politics and power has always entertained a healthy streak of scepticism about 'essentializing' theories of any ...