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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b2649431.
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: Toward a disciplinary intellectual history -- Part II: Brown's epistemology -- Romancing Newton -- The locked closet -- A Cartesian plague -- Hume and repetition -- Kant and madness -- Coda -- Part III: Poe's methodology -- Is science deadly dull? -- Is there a life science? -- Undying literature -- Part IV: Hawthorne's technology -- The anxieties of alienation -- The problems of preemption -- Treachery betrayed -- Part V: After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer -- Sister Caries, Brother Arthur -- Polar similarity -- The celestial spacecraft.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 216 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521352517".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [39]".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813.009 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science United States.".
- catalog subject "PS374.S33 L56 1990".
- catalog subject "Science in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Toward a disciplinary intellectual history -- Part II: Brown's epistemology -- Romancing Newton -- The locked closet -- A Cartesian plague -- Hume and repetition -- Kant and madness -- Coda -- Part III: Poe's methodology -- Is science deadly dull? -- Is there a life science? -- Undying literature -- Part IV: Hawthorne's technology -- The anxieties of alienation -- The problems of preemption -- Treachery betrayed -- Part V: After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer -- Sister Caries, Brother Arthur -- Polar similarity -- The celestial spacecraft.".
- catalog title "The place of fiction in the time of science : a disciplinary history of American writing / John Limon.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".