{"product_id":"the-place-of-fiction-in-the-time-of-science-a-disciplinary-history-of-american-writing-paperback-9780521107631","title":"The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science; A Disciplinary History of American Writing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521107631","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Place of Fiction in the Time of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Disciplinary History of American Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1990 book examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction in an age increasingly dominated by science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Limon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521107631, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e236 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Toward a disciplinary intellectual history\u003cbr\u003e 2. Brown's epistemology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poe's methodology\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hawthorne's technology\u003cbr\u003e 5. After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006423322904,"sku":"9780521107631","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521107631i.jpg?v=1694976148","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-place-of-fiction-in-the-time-of-science-a-disciplinary-history-of-american-writing-paperback-9780521107631","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}