literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment /
First Statement of Responsibility
Tita Chico.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, California :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
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1806
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : the experimental imagination -- Literary knowledge -- Immodest witnesses -- Scientific education -- Political science -- When science becomes literature.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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JSTOR
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22573/ctvqrs404
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Title
Experimental imagination.
International Standard Book Number
9781503605442
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Enlightenment-- Great Britain.
Imagination.
Knowledge, Theory of-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
English literature.
Enlightenment.
Imagination.
Knowledge, Theory of.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh