Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
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[Book]
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/ edited by Alexis Tadiae and Richard Scholar
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Burlington, VT
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: Ashgate Pub. Co.
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, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 159 p.
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Print
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Bibliography
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadiae - Poetic fiction and natural philosophy in humanist Italy: Fracostoro's use of myth in Syphilis / Isabelle Pantin - Si faut-il voir si cette belle philosophie: the language of fiction in Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal / Wes Williams - Fictions across disciplines in seventeenth-century France / Isabelle Moreau - Elements of fiction in Hobbes's system of philosophy / Luc Foisneau - The making of the modern philosopher: fictions of philosophical identity in Locke and Hume / Robert Mankin - Philosophy, ethics, and the work of fiction: Diderot's answer to Molyneux's question / Kate E. Tunstall - The Terror as a legal fiction / Anne Simonin
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
European literature - Renaissance - 1450-1600 - History and criticism
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism
European literature - 18th century - History and criticism