Literature After Euclid [online] : The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment / Matthew Wickman.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Theorem: Shapes of Time -- Chapter 1. Scotland’s Age of Union: Toward an Elongated Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2. Scott’s Shapes -- Part II. Scholium: Scenes of Writing -- Chapter 3. “Wild Geometry” and the Picturesque -- Chapter 4. Burns After Reading, or, On the Poetic Fold Between Shape and Number -- Part III. Locus Measuring the Scottish Enlightenment Across History -- Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson’s Poetic Calculus -- Chapter 6. A Long and Shapely Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Ackonwledgments

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.

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.