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.

List of contents

Introduction

1. "Literary Knowledge"

2. "Immodest Witnesses"

3. "Scientific Seduction"

4. "Political Science"

5. "When Science Becomes Literature"

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tita Chico
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781503613591
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1359-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism