The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment / Tita Chico.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781503606456
- 1503606457
- 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
- 1700-1799
- 820.9/36 23
- PR448.S32
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the experimental imagination -- Literary knowledge -- Immodest witnesses -- Scientific education -- Political science -- When science becomes literature.
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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.
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