The place of fiction in the time of science a disciplinary history of American writing
In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - three highly articula...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1990.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 39. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42016393*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Toward a disciplinary intellectual history
- Part II: Brown's epistemology
- Romancing Newton
- The locked closet
- A Cartesian plague
- Hume and repetition
- Kant and madness
- Coda
- Part III: Poe's methodology
- Is science deadly dull?
- Is there a life science?
- Undying literature
- Part IV: Hawthorne's technology
- The anxieties of alienation
- The problems of preemption
- Treachery betrayed
- Part V: After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer
- Sister Caries, Brother Arthur
- Polar similarity
- The celestial spacecraft.
