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Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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Exploring a topic at the intersection of science, philosophy and
literature in the late eighteenth century Dahlia Porter traces the
history of induction as a writerly practice - as a procedure for
manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation - from its
roots in Francis Bacon's experimental philosophy to its
pervasiveness across Enlightenment moral philosophy, aesthetics,
literary criticism, and literature itself. Porter brings this
history to bear on an omnipresent feature of Romantic-era
literature, its mixtures of verse and prose. Combining analyses of
printed books and manuscripts with recent scholarship in the
history of science, she elucidates the compositional practices and
formal dilemmas of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Southey, Charlotte Smith,
Maria Edgeworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In doing so she
re-examines the relationship between Romantic literature and
eighteenth-century empiricist science, philosophy, and forms of art
and explores how Romantic writers engaged with the ideas of
Enlightenment empiricism in their work.
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