The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment /

The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chico, Tita, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1700-1799
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.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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