Overview

This volume highlights the connections that link both literary discourse and the discourse about literature to the conceptual or representational frameworks, practices, and cognitive results (the ‘truths’) of disciplines such as psychology, medicine, epistemology, anthropology, cartography, chemistry, and rhetoric. Literature and the sciences, embedded as they are in specific historical circumstances, thus emerge as fields of inquiry and representation which share a number of assumptions and are determined or constructed by several modes of cross-fertilization. The range of authors examined includes Richard Brome, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Shaftesbury, Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Smollett, while emphasis is placed on how authors of literature regard the practices, practitioners and findings of science, as well as on how ‘mimesis’ intersects with scientific discourse. Contributors are Bernhard Klein, Daniel Essig García, George Rousseau, Jorge Bastos da Silva, Kate De Rycker, Maria Avxentevskaya, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, Mihaela Irimia, Richard Nate, and Wojciech Nowicki.

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Author:   Jorge Bastos da Silva ,  Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   84
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9789004349353

ISBN 10:   9004349359
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction  Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Forethought: A Trade for Lightand the State of the Art  George Rousseau Part 1: Engendering Space, Creating Meaning 1 Oroonoko and the Mapping of Africa  Bernhard Klein 2 The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material  Miguel Ramalhete Gomes 3 A World of One’s Own: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-fashioning  Kate De Rycker 4 The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology  Mihaela Irimia Part 2: Forms of Discourse and Sociability 5 From Inventio to Invention: John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick  Maria Avxentevskaya 6 “Quitting Now the Flowers of Rhetoric”: Anti-rhetorical Continuities in English Science and Literature  Richard Nate 7 Reconnoitring and Recognizing: Modes of Knowledge in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks  Jorge Bastos da Silva 8 Readers of Nerves and Tears: From Plague to Pamela  Daniel Essig García 9 Quackery, “Chymistry” and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction  Wojciech Nowicki Index

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Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto) has published on topics of literary and intellectual history such as the traditions of utopianism, the history of translation, and the relationship between English literature and philosophy between the Augustan Age and Romanticism. Miguel Ramalhete Gomes is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Porto. He recently published Texts Waiting for History: William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller (Rodopi, 2014). His research interests include Early Modern Drama, Irish Studies, and Utopian Studies.

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