 | Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment Subjects: Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism; Geometry in literature; Enlightenment -- Scotland; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Matthew Wickman is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is author of The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
