The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment Paperback Stanford University Press
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The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment Paperback Stanford University Press

The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment

Stanford University Press
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Description

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.

Author: Tita Chico
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781503613591
ISBN10: 1503613593
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Social History
- Science | History

About the Author
Tita Chico is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Designing Women (2005).