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Author Valenza, Robin.

Title Literature, language, and the rise of the intellectual disciplines in Britain, 1680-1820 / Robin Valenza.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents The economies of knowledge -- The learned and conversable worlds -- Physics and its audiences -- Philosophy's place between science and literature -- Poetry among the intellectual disciples.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
Summary "The current divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialized, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed new account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought."--Jacket.
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Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and science.
Great Britain.
History.
Language and culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Language and culture.
Science and the humanities -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Science and the humanities.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1700-1800
1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Valenza, Robin. Literature, language, and the rise of the intellectual disciplines in Britain, 1680-1820. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521767026 (DLC) 2009026029
ISBN 9780511635151 (electronic book)
051163515X (electronic book)
0511633017 (electronic book)
9780511633010 (electronic book)
9780521767026 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0521767024 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780511635601 (ebook)
0511635605 (ebook)
Standard No. 9786612336867