The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing - Rilegato

Limon, John

 
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This 1990 book examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction in an age increasingly dominated by science.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

1. Toward a disciplinary intellectual history; 2. Brown's epistemology; 3. Poe's methodology; 4. Hawthorne's technology; 5. After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer.

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9780521107631: The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521107636 ISBN 13:  9780521107631
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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