TY - BOOK AU - Chico,Tita TI - The experimental imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment SN - 9781503606456 AV - PR448.S32 U1 - 820.9/36 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Literature and science KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Enlightenment KW - Imagination KW - Littérature et sciences KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - 18e siècle KW - Théorie de la connaissance KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Siècle des Lumières KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the experimental imagination -- Literary knowledge -- Immodest witnesses -- Scientific education -- Political science -- When science becomes literature N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1742374 ER -