The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science : A Disciplinary History of American Writing. [Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 39]

LIMON, John

ISBN 10: 0521352517 / ISBN 13: 9780521352512

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

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pp.xii, 216 pages, a Fine hardback in a fine dust-jacket [0521352517].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science : A Disciplinary History of American Writing. [Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 39]
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521352517
• ISBN 13: 9780521352512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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.