Title The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment / Tita Chico.

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Description	1 online resource
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : the experimental imagination -- Literary knowledge -- Immodest witnesses -- Scientific education -- Political science -- When science becomes literature.
Summary	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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Literature and science.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Knowledge, Theory of -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Knowledge, Theory of.
	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
	Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
	Enlightenment.
	Imagination.
	Imagination.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Chico, Tita, 1970- Experimental imagination. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503605442 (DLC) 2017050808
ISBN	9781503606456 (electronic book)
	1503606457 (electronic book)
	9781503605442