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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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