Richard Scholar, Alexis Tadié

Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring fiction from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays, not only in a variety of literary genres, but also in the formation of philosophical ideas, political theories, and the law. They show that fiction is best understood as a frontier that both demarcates literary genres and disciplines of knowledge and allows for the circulation of ideas between them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781409408659
• ISBN-10: 1409408655
• Artikelnr.: 45338108

Autorenporträt

Richard Scholar is Fellow and Tutor in French at Oriel College, Oxford, UK. Alexis Tadié is Professor of English Literature, University of Paris Sorbonne, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Richard Scholar
Alexis Tadié; Chapter 1 Poetic Fiction and Natural Philosophy in Humanist Italy: Fracastoro's Use of Myth in Syphilis
Isabelle Pantin; Chapter 2 'Si Faut-il Voir Si Cette Belle Philosophie...': The Language of Fiction in Montaigne
Corneille
and Pascal
Wes Williams; Chapter 3 1 This chapter was translated by Liz Nash.
Isabelle Moreau; Chapter 4 1 This chapter was translated by Sophie Lewis.
Luc Foisneau; Chapter 5 The Making of the Modern Philosopher: Fictions of Philosophical Identity in Locke and Hume
Robert Mankin; Chapter 6 Philosophy
Ethics
and the Work of Fiction: Diderot's Answer to Molyneux's Question
Kate E. Tunstall; Chapter 7 1 This chapter was translated by Liz Nash.
Anne Simonin;