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

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by John Limon

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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 - 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521107636

ISBN13:9780521107631

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.77 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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