LEADER 04617nam 2200721 450 001 9910797932603321 005 20210430215800.0 010 $a0-8122-9253-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292534 035 $a(CKB)3710000000571275 035 $a(EBL)4322272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001591763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16289554 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13841987 035 $a(PQKB)11208337 035 $a(OCoLC)933442595 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52155 035 $a(DE-B1597)469656 035 $a(OCoLC)959919081 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4322272 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL881621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322272 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000571275 100 $a20160205h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterature after Euclid $ethe geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment /$fMatthew Wickman 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-4795-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Scotland?s Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century --$tChapter 2. Scott?s Shapes --$tChapter 3. ?Wild Geometry? and the Picturesque --$tChapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number --$tChapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson?s Poetic Calculus --$tChapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhat if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two cultures," one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering. Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. It argues that diverse attempts in literature and philosophy to explain or even emulate the geometric achievements of Isaac Newton and others resulted in innovations that modify our understanding of descriptive and bardic poetry, the aesthetics of the picturesque, and the historical novel. Matthew Wickman's analyses of these innovations in the work of Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Thomson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and other literati change how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the later, modernist ethos that purportedly relegated the "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Indeed, the Scottish Enlightenment's geometric imagination changes how we see literary history itself. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aScottish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGeometry in literature 606 $aEnlightenment$zScotland 607 $aScotland$xIntellectual life$y18th century 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aScottish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGeometry in literature. 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a820.9/9411 700 $aWickman$b Matthew$01135895 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797932603321 996 $aLiterature after Euclid$93792024 997 $aUNINA