Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel

Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel
ISBN-10
0812248724
ISBN-13
9780812248722
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2017-01-13
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Helen Thompson

Description

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the emergent realist novel.

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