Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, And The Novel

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the emergent realist novel.

• | Author: Helen Thompson
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0812248724
• | ISBN-13: 9780812248722