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The Voice of the Non-Human: Scientific Knowledge, It-Narratives and Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century

Alessio Mattana

Abstrak

This article examines the connection between early scientific ideas and It-Narratives in Britain over the long eighteenth century. A set of It-Narratives - fictional texts narrated by, or centred on, non-human entities like things or animals - will be read against the attempt to detect the voice of natural things by a number of early-modern experimental and natural philosophers. It will be argued that, although causal links are hard to prove, there is a degree of epistemic vicinity between these early scientific ideas and It-Narratives. In particular, it will be shown how in both disciplines fiction helped contemplate the possibility that non-human knowledge is more reliable than human-derived one.

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Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Style. Composition. Rhetoric Literature (General) Oratory. Elocution, etc.

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Alessio Mattana

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Mattana, A. (2024). The Voice of the Non-Human: Scientific Knowledge, It-Narratives and Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century. https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/20781

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Tahun Terbit: 2024
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/20781
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