Abstract
Review of: Matthew Wickman. Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.The review praises Wickman's "extraordinary book," designed to “throw a wrench into grand narratives about modernity,” summarizing its wide-ranging argument about the centrality of spatial, visual and geometric thought in what Wickman calls "the long looping eighteenth century," in Scottish philosophy, education and literature, and commenting briefly on the implications of Wickman's argument for "how literary canons are made" and "the dynamics of disciplines."
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Hill, Mike
(2019)
"Scotland and the Geometric Imagination,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 45:
Iss.
1, 113–118.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/11