UID:
almafu_9958352395502883
Format:
1 online resource :
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7 illus.
ISBN:
9780812292534
Series Statement:
Haney Foundation Series
Content:
Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Part I. Theorem: Shapes of Time --
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Chapter 1. Scotland’s Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century --
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Chapter 2. Scott’s Shapes --
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Part II. Scholium: Scenes of Writing --
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Chapter 3. “Wild Geometry” and the Picturesque --
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Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number --
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Part III. Locus Measuring the Scottish Enlightenment Across History --
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Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson’s Poetic Calculus --
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Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Ackonwledgments
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.9783/9780812292534
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292534
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