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020			_a9781317135524
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 42.99 _fBB
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041			_aeng
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100	1		_aRichard Scholar
245	1	0	_aFiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
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260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20160415
300			_a172 p
520			_bThe uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its literary genres, but also in its formation of philosophical ideas, political theories, and the law. The volume explores these uses of fiction in a series of interrelated case studies, ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution and examining the work of, among others, Montaigne, Corneille, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Diderot. It asks: Where does fiction live, and thrive? Under what conditions, and to what ends? It suggests that fiction is best understood not as a genre or a discipline but, instead, as a frontier: one that demarcates literary genres and disciplines of knowledge and which, crucially, allows for the circulation of ideas between them.
700	1		_aAlexis Tadié _4A01
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