The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment /

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of truth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chico, Tita, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Temas:
1700-1799
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Knowledge, Theory of > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
Imagination.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Théorie de la connaissance > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Siècle des Lumières > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature
Enlightenment
Imagination
Knowledge, Theory of
Literature and science
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of truth.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781503606456
1503606457

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