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Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.

Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.