Fact and Feeling - Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.

Riassunto

Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Smith
• Editore: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.08.2000
• EAN: 9780299143541
• ISBN: 978-0-299-14354-1
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 386 g
• Serie: Wisconsin Project on American; Science and Literature; Science & Literature S.; Wisconsin Project on American; Science and Literature; Science & Literature
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata