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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      February 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511570476
      9780521352512
      9780521107631
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570476
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.452kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 236 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (39)
      Subjects:
      Literature, History of Science, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, General Science
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (39)
    Subjects:
    Literature, History of Science, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, General Science
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    In this 1990 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 - three highly articulate and highly alarmed witnesses to the professionalisation of science, the great crisis in modern intellectual history. It was, he argues, especially specially difficult for American writers to face this crisis since they could make no appeal to traditional values: America, after all, had never really been a pre-scientific society.

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