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

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

Limon, John
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 39

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521352517
ISBN13: 9780521352512
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 23 1990
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
In this major new book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have written 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 alarmed witnesses to the great crisis in modern intellectual history, the professionalization of science. It was, Limon argues, especially difficult for American writers to face this crisis because, since America had been born in an age of expanding scientific consciousness and thus no appeal could be made to traditional, pre-scientific values.

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