{"product_id":"literature-after-euclid-9780812247954","title":"Literature After Euclid","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?\u003cbr\u003eThe persistence of the rhetoric of two cultures, one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiterature After Euclid\u003c\/i\u003e will be a significant and controversial book, bringing together important issues in literary and intellectual history with powerful theoretical questions about the relation between aesthetic and scientific disciplines, the shape and constitution of literary history, and the conception of literary form. It is an original, accomplished, and frequently brilliant work.\" * Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiterature After Euclid\u003c\/i\u003e poses fundamental questions about the relationship of space and time in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought, and offers an array of fertile, exciting insights.\" * Alice Jenkins, University of Glasgow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THEOREM: SHAPES OF TIME\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Scotland's Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Scott's Shapes\u003cbr\u003e PART II. SCHOLIUM: SCENES OF WRITING\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"Wild Geometry\" and the Picturesque\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number\u003cbr\u003e PART III. LOCUS: MEASURING THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT ACROSS HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn\/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405727342935,"sku":"9780812247954","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247954.jpg?v=1730493410","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literature-after-euclid-9780812247954","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}