Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel
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In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British culture. Although the scientific revolution championed experimental, sense-based knowledge, chemists claimed that perceptible bodies were made of invisible particles or "corpuscles." Neither modern elements nor classical atoms, corpuscles were reactive, divisible...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812248724
ISBN13:9780812248722
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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