Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680 1820
Robin Valenza
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Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680 1820

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The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialised, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza s...