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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chico, Tita, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the experimental imagination
  • Literary knowledge
  • Immodest witnesses
  • Scientific education
  • Political science
  • When science becomes literature.

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