Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780299143541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Jonathan Smith

Opis

Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.