Fictional Matter : : Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel / / Helen Thompson.
In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British culture. Although the scientific revolution championed experimental, sense-based knowledge, chemists claime...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Boyle's Doctrine of Qualities
- Chapter 2. John Locke and Matter's Power
- Chapter 3. Morbific Matter and Character's Form
- Chapter 4. Race and the Corpuscle
- Chapter 5. Quality's Qualities: Fielding's Alchemical Imaginary
- Chapter 6. Fixing Sex: Richardson's Clarissa
- Epilogue. Denominating Oxygen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments