Literature After Euclid : The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment /

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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two...

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Autor principal: Wickman, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scottish literature.
Intellectual life.
Geometry in literature.
Enlightenment.
English literature > Scottish authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Siecle des Lumieres > Écosse.
Geometrie dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs ecossais > Histoire et critique.
Litterature ecossaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
Scottish literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Scotland.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I. THEOREM: SHAPES OF TIME; Chapter 1. Scotland's Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century; Chapter 2. Scott's Shapes; PART II. SCHOLIUM: SCENES OF WRITING; Chapter 3. ''Wild Geometry'' and the Picturesque; Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number; PART III. LOCUS: MEASURING THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT ACROSS HISTORY; Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus; Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K.
  • LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

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