Literature after Euclid : the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment / Matthew Wickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickman, Matthew, author.

Series:

Haney Foundation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Scottish authors.

Geometry in literature.

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Scotland.

Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Summary:

In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and. political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in works by Jane Austen, Horace Walpole, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley, among others, Available in Hardcover Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Theorem: Shapes of Time

Chapter 1 Scotland's Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century 21

Chapter 2 Scott's Shapes 53

Part II Scholium: Scenes of Writing

Chapter 3 "Wild Geometry" and the Picturesque 95

Chapter 4 Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number 130

Part III Locus: Measuring the Scottish Enlightenment Across History

Chapter 5 The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus 163

Chapter 6 A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.

ISBN:

9780812247954

0812247957

OCLC:

911255322