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English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century : a trade for light

Silva, Jorge Miguel Bastos da, 1971- editor, Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete, editor

Overview

This volume highlights the connections that link both literary discourse and the discourse about literature to the conceptual or representational frameworks, practices, and cognitive results (the 'truths') of disciplines such as psychology, medicine, epistemology, anthropology, cartography, chemistry, and rhetoric. Literature and the sciences, embedded as they are in specific historical circumstances, thus emerge as fields of inquiry and representation which share a number of assumptions and are determined or constructed by several modes of cross-fertilization. The range of authors examined includes Richard Brome, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Shaftesbury, Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Smollett, while emphasis is placed on how authors of literature regard the practices, practitioners and findings of science, as well as on how 'mimesis' intersects with scientific discourse.

• Publisher: Brill Rodopi
• Subject: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. / English literature Early modern. / Literature and science England History 17th century. / Literature and science England History 18th century.
• ISBN: 9789004349353

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