The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) [Hardcover]

John Limon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | Publication Date: February 23, 1990

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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Book Description

In this 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition edition (February 23, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521352517
• ISBN-13: 978-0521352512
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,352,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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