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BL
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852315
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Chico, Tita,1970-
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| Title & Author
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The experimental imagination : : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment /\ Tita Chico.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, California :: Stanford University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1503606457
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: 9781503606456
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9781503605442
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : the experimental imagination -- Literary knowledge -- Immodest witnesses -- Scientific education -- Political science -- When science becomes literature.
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| Abstract
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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.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Enlightenment-- Great Britain.
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Imagination.
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Knowledge, Theory of-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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English literature.
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Enlightenment.
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Imagination.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and science.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/36
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| LC Classification
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PR448.S32
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