Henry S. Turner, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers
University, is the author of The English Renaissance Stage:
Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630
(Oxford, 2006), and the editor of The Culture of Capital:
Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England
(Routledge, 2002). He is series co-editor with Mary Thomas
Crane of Scientific and Literary Cultures of Early
Modernity (Ashgate), and book review editor of The Upstart
Crow: A Shakespeare Journal.
He has recently completed Shakespeare’s Double Helix,
a contribution to the “Shakespeare Now!” series published by
Continuum Press (forthcoming 2008). Focusing on A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, this book explores the relationship between
poetic and scientific discourses in early modern England and how
the play sheds light on 21st-century accounts of human and
artificial life in philosophy, biotechnology and American political
culture. Professor Turner’s next book-length project, The
Corporate Commonwealth: Economy, Technology, and Community in Early
Modern England, examines philosophies of industry, technology
and economy and their relationship to notions of political
community and political subjectivity in 16th and 17th century
English culture.
Speaker
Henry S. Turner, Ph.D.
Date
Monday, October 29, 2007
Time
3:30 p.m.
Location
Bent Hall, Room 277, Queens campus
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