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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. "Literary Knowledge"

2. "Immodest Witnesses"

3. "Scientific Seduction"

4. "Political Science"

5. "When Science Becomes Literature"

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tita Chico is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Designing Women (2005).

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tita Chico
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781503613591
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1359-1
• Seiten: 256
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism