Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), Late Modern English: Novel encounters. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vii + 359. ISBN 9789027205087.

Experimental Science and the Art of the Novel

The Poetry and Music of Science ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198797999.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 128-190

Author(s):

Tom McLeish

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

Henry James ◽

Scientific Investigation ◽

The Novel ◽

Experimental Science ◽

Science And Literature ◽

English Novel ◽

Second Mode ◽

Early English ◽

Late Modern

The coincident birth of experimental science and the early English novel is followed to its underlying rationale of mimesis—the construction of small, abstracted worlds in which possibilities and constraints play out and which teach us about the wider world. The second mode of imagination is the textual. The entangled story of the textual in literature and science is followed though Newton and Milton, Boyle and Defoe, Humboldt and Emerson, and a parallel reading of Henry James’ The Art of the Novel and William Beveridge’s The Art of Scientific Investigation. Late-modern comparisons are made between Feynman’s Nobel Prize account, and the writing of Nabokov and Woolf, finding that textual imagination still displays common creative patterns in science and literature.

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The Good Fraud: Accounting, Finance and Banking in a 1930s English Novel

CONTABILITÀ E CULTURA AZIENDALE ◽

10.3280/cca2017-002003 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 43-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christopher J. Napier

Keyword(s):

English Novel

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Colonialism and the Highland Clearances

Northern Scotland ◽

10.3366/nor.2017.0125 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 22-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Iain Mackinnon

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Indigenous Research ◽

Internal Colonialism ◽

New Approach ◽

A Site ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Imperial State ◽

Late Modern

This article employs a new approach to studying internal colonialism in northern Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries. A common approach to examining internal colonial situations within modern state territories is to compare characteristics of the internal colonial situation with attested attributes of external colonial relations. Although this article does not reject the comparative approach, it seeks to avoid criticisms that this approach can be misleading by demonstrating that promoters and managers of projects involving land use change, territorial dispossession and industrial development in the late modern Gàidhealtachd consistently conceived of their work as projects of colonization. It further argues that the new social, cultural and political structures these projects imposed on the area's indigenous population correspond to those found in other colonial situations, and that racist and racialist attitudes towards Gaels of the time are typical of those in colonial situations during the period. The article concludes that the late modern Gàidhealtachd has been a site of internal colonization where the relationship of domination between colonizer and colonized is complex, longstanding and occurring within the imperial state. In doing so it demonstrates that the history and present of the Gaels of Scotland belongs within the ambit of an emerging indigenous research paradigm.

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