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English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century : a trade for light /

This volume highlights the connections that link both literary discourse and the discourse about literature to the conceptual or representational frameworks, practices, and cognitive results (the 'truths') of disciplines such as psychology, medicine, epistemology, anthropology, cartography...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Silva, Jorge Miguel Bastos da, 1971- (Editor), Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill Ropodi, [2018]
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 84.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
  • Forethought: A Trade for Light and the State of the Art / George Rousseau
  • Engendering Space, Creating Meaning
  • Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa / Bernhard Klein
  • The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome's The Antipodes as Freudian Material / Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
  • A World of One's Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning / Kate De Rycker
  • The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology / Mihaela Irimia
  • Forms of Discourse and Sociability
  • From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins' Mathematical Magick / Maria Avxentevskaya
  • "Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric": Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature / Richard Nate
  • Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury's Characteristicks / Jorge Bastos da Silva
  • Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela / Daniel Essig García
  • Quackery, "Chymistry" and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction / Wojciech Nowicki.