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

By Tita Chico

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503613593
• ISBN13: 9781503613591
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"