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Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel

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Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel - Thompson, Helen
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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.

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Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel 2017, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812248722

Hardcover