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Title English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century : a trade for light / edited by Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill Ropodi, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; volume 84
Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 84.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Literature and science -- England -- History.
Literature and science.
England.
History.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Silva, Jorge Miguel Bastos da, 1971- editor.
Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete, editor.
Other Form: Print version: English literature and the disciplines of knowledge, early modern to eighteenth century. A trade for light. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2017 9789004349353 (OCoLC)987369742
ISBN 9789004349360 (electronic book)
9004349367 (electronic book)
9789004349353
9004349359