Literature After Euclid : : The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment / / Matthew Wickman.
What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two...
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Wickman, Matthew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Literature After Euclid : The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment / Matthew Wickman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2016 1 online resource (304 p.) : 7 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Theorem: Shapes of Time -- Chapter 1. Scotland's Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2. Scott's Shapes -- Part II. Scholium: Scenes of Writing -- Chapter 3. "Wild Geometry" and the Picturesque -- Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number -- Part III. Locus Measuring the Scottish Enlightenment Across History -- Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus -- Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Ackonwledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two cultures," one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering.Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. It argues that diverse attempts in literature and philosophy to explain or even emulate the geometric achievements of Isaac Newton and others resulted in innovations that modify our understanding of descriptive and bardic poetry, the aesthetics of the picturesque, and the historical novel. Matthew Wickman's analyses of these innovations in the work of Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Thomson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and other literati change how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the later, modernist ethos that purportedly relegated the "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Indeed, the Scottish Enlightenment's geometric imagination changes how we see literary history itself. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) English literature Scottish authors History and criticism. Enlightenment Scotland. Geometry in literature. Scottish literature 18th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812247954 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292534 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292534 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812292534.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Theorem: Shapes of Time -- Chapter 1. Scotland's Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2. Scott's Shapes -- Part II. Scholium: Scenes of Writing -- Chapter 3. "Wild Geometry" and the Picturesque -- Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number -- Part III. Locus Measuring the Scottish Enlightenment Across History -- Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus -- Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Ackonwledgments |
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