The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (review)

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-267
Author(s):  
Richard Nash
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

2006 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 1094
Author(s):  
Eleanor Collins ◽  
Felicity A. Nussbaum ◽  
Ellen Pollak ◽  
Jennifer Thorn
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experimental Findings ◽  
Literary Archive ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Practice Of Science

This introduction challenges the “two cultures” debate about disciplinarity. Critical studies of literature and science have not presented a satisfactory understanding of the two domains’ comingling and reciprocity. Early science formulated itself through literary knowledge: natural philosophers relied on literariness not only to present experimental findings but also to imagine the practice of science. The multiplicity and diversity of allusions to science in the long eighteenth-century literary archive reflect an understanding of literary knowledge as epistemologically superior. Natural philosophical practice requires yet obscures the imaginative practice; literary knowledge embraces this impulse as a way of understanding the world at large. The experimental imagination encapsulates the process and effects of literary knowledge as an epistemology. The keywords literary knowledge, science, trope, and gender reveal core concepts that enable myriad writers to posit alternative models of experience, authority, and evidence.

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