The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science : A Disciplinary History of American Writing
by
John Limon
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521107636
ISBN-13
9780521107631
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 5th, 2009
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
United States of America, USALiterary studies: general
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In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - three highly articulate and highly alarmed witnesses to the professionalisation of science, the great crisis in modern intellectual history. It was, he argues, especially specially difficult for American writers to face this crisis since they could make no appeal to traditional values: America, after all, had never really been a pre-scientific society.
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