| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 120
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 120.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2018). |
| Summary |
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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Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Romanticism's Composite Orders; 1 Knowledge-Mind-Text: A History of Inductive Method; Doing and Making; Synthesis and the Problem of Induction; Literature as Database; Part I Making Texts: The Annotated Poem; 2 Erasmus Darwin's Prose of the World: Induction and the Philosophical Poem; Plain Style and the Annotated Poem; "Knowledge Broken" and Strict Analogies; The Aesthetics of Allegory; Real Figures: Darwin's Hieroglyphs |
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3 Poetics of the Commonplace: Robert Southey's Analogical RomancePoetics of the Commonplace; Annotation, Antiquarianism, and the Disciplines of History; Aesthetics on the Verge of Parody; Interlude: The First Landing-Place: Prose Notes and Embedded Verse; Part II Making Minds: Poetry in Prose; 4 Methodizing the Mind: Experimental Education and the Poetic Excerpt; The Forms of Cognition; Fiction Methodized; Poetry Explained, Methodically; Poetry Methodized; 5 Coleridge and Literary Criticism: The Pains of Induction; Reclaiming Induction; The Critic's Method; The Poet's Genius |
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Disciplining the ExcerptThe Final Landing Place: The Composite Incarnate; Bibliography; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Induction (Logic) in literature.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Induction (Logic) in literature |
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English literature |
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Literature and science |
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Romanticism |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
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18.05 English literature. |
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1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108418942 |
| ISBN |
9781108292412 (electronic bk.) |
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1108292410 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108314466 (electronic bk.) |
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1108314465 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108418942 (hardback) |
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9781108408561 (paperback) |
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1108418945 |
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9781108418942 |
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1108408567 |
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9781108408561 |
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