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

• Type: Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Silva, Jorge Bastos da (Editor) FLUP; Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete (Editor) FLUP

Publisher

Brill

Leiden

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > Literature

Other information

DOI: 10.1163/9789004349360

Abstract (EN): 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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ISBN: 978-90-04-34935-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-90-04-34936-0

Collection: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature; 84