The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science : A Disciplinary History of American Writing Paperback / softback
by John Limon
Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
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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 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780521107631
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521107631
