The Experimental Imagination : Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment /

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Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early sci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chico, Tita (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
Imagination.
Knowledge, Theory of > History > 18th century > Great Britain.
Knowledge, Theory of > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and science > History > 18th century > Great Britain.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
British Enlightenment.
aesthetics.
drama.
epistemology.
experiment.
imagination.
literature.
poetry.
prose.
science.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Literary Knowledge
  • 2. Immodest Witnesses
  • 3. Scientific Seduction
  • 4. Political Science
  • 5. When Science Becomes Literature
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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