Description: Exploring a topic at the intersection of science, philosophy and literature in the late eighteenth century Dahlia Porter traces the history of induction as a writerly practice - as a procedure for manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation - from its roots in Francis Bacon's experimental philosophy to its pervasiveness across Enlightenment moral philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, and literature itself. Porter brings this history to bear on an omnipresent feature of Romantic-era literature, its mixtures of verse and prose. Combining analyses of printed books and manuscripts with recent scholarship in the history of science, she elucidates the compositional practices and formal dilemmas of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Southey, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In doing so she re-examines the relationship between Romantic literature and eighteenth-century empiricist science, philosophy, and forms of art and explores how Romantic writers engaged with the ideas of Enlightenment empiricism in their work.
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EAN: 9781108408561
UPC: 9781108408561
ISBN: 9781108408561
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Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism
Item Height: 230mm
Item Width: 153mm
Author: Dahlia Porter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 470g
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
