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  3. Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2018
      June 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108292412
      9781108418942
      9781108408561
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108292412
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 318 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (120)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (120)
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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.

    Awards

    Honourable mention, 2019 University English Annual Book Prize

    Shortlisted, 2019 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) First Book Prize

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