English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century : a trade for light /
English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century : a trade for light /
edited by Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes.
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; v. 84 .
- Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 84. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328075. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Forethought: A Trade for Light and the State of the Art / Engendering Space, Creating Meaning -- Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa / The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material / A World of One’s Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning / The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology / Forms of Discourse and Sociability -- From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick / “Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric”: Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature / Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks / Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela / Quackery, “Chymistry” and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction / Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- George Rousseau -- Bernhard Klein -- Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Kate De Rycker -- Mihaela Irimia -- Maria Avxentevskaya -- Richard Nate -- Jorge Bastos da Silva -- Daniel Essig García -- Wojciech Nowicki.
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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. Contributors are Bernhard Klein, Daniel Essig García, George Rousseau, Jorge Bastos da Silva, Kate De Rycker, Maria Avxentevskaya, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, Mihaela Irimia, Richard Nate, and Wojciech Nowicki.
9789004349360
10.1163/9789004349360 DOI
English literature--History and criticism.--17th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and science--History.--England
Discourse analysis, Literary.
PR431 / .E54 2018
820.9004
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Forethought: A Trade for Light and the State of the Art / Engendering Space, Creating Meaning -- Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa / The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material / A World of One’s Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning / The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology / Forms of Discourse and Sociability -- From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick / “Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric”: Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature / Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks / Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela / Quackery, “Chymistry” and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction / Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- George Rousseau -- Bernhard Klein -- Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Kate De Rycker -- Mihaela Irimia -- Maria Avxentevskaya -- Richard Nate -- Jorge Bastos da Silva -- Daniel Essig García -- Wojciech Nowicki.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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. Contributors are Bernhard Klein, Daniel Essig García, George Rousseau, Jorge Bastos da Silva, Kate De Rycker, Maria Avxentevskaya, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, Mihaela Irimia, Richard Nate, and Wojciech Nowicki.
9789004349360
10.1163/9789004349360 DOI
English literature--History and criticism.--17th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and science--History.--England
Discourse analysis, Literary.
PR431 / .E54 2018
820.9004