sci & lit

[Erik T. Burns]

foax:

i suggest this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521352517/102-4301199-0557739?v=glance&n=2
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Book Description

In this major new book John Limon examines the various ways American authors
have written in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in
particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne--three highly articulate and alarmed witnesses to the great crisis
in modern intellectual history, the professionalization of science. It was,
Limon argues, especially difficult for American writers to face this crisis
because, since America had been born in an age of expanding scientific
consciousness and thus no appeal could be made to traditional,
pre-scientific values.

"new" = from 1990.

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