1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0016969

Autore

Kreuzer, Helen

Titolo

Recombinant DNA and biotechnology : a guide for teachers / Helen Kreuzer, Adrianne Massey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : ASM press, c2001

ISBN

15-558-1175-2

Edizione

[2. ed]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 648 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Massey, Adrianne

Disciplina

572.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255257803321

Autore

Maioli Roger

Titolo

Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel : Fielding to Austen / / by Roger Maioli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319398594

3319398598

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, , 2634-6524

Disciplina

823.087290906

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 18th century

Fiction

Philosophy

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Maps of Worlds Unseen -- 2. David Hume and the Empiricist Challenge -- 3. Empiricism and Fielding's Theory of Fiction -- 4. Varieties of Propositionalism -- 5. Laurence Sterne and the Experience of Reading Fiction -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.-.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to capitulate. It traces how, in their reflections on the novel, these writers attempted to formulate a theoretical link between the world of experience and the products of the imagination, and thus update the old defenses of poetry for empirical times. Taken together, the empiricist challenge and the responses it elicited signaled a transition in the longstanding debate about literature and knowledge, as an inaugural round in the persisting conflict between the empirical sciences and the literary humanities.