Introduction:  Latour and Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies

Tina Jane Lupton; Sean  Silver; Adam  Sneed

Introduction: Latour and Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies

Tina Jane Lupton, Sean Silver, Adam Sneed

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Abstract

Bruno Latour's formulation of modernity as a particular intertwining of persons
and things has shaped recent efforts to rethink the legacy of the Enlightenment. What is more, Latour has often reverted to the eighteenth century as a site of origins—whether it is for the sort of practices that characterize the modern laboratory, the social formations that are the objects of Actor-Network Theory generally, and the kinds of false conceptual breaks that obscure the nature of these very formations and practices. Scholars studying the literature ...Bruno Latour's formulation of modernity as a particular intertwining of persons
and things has shaped recent efforts to rethink the legacy of the Enlightenment. What is more, Latour has often reverted to the eighteenth century as a site of origins—whether it is for the sort of practices that characterize the modern laboratory, the social formations that are the objects of Actor-Network Theory generally, and the kinds of false conceptual breaks that obscure the nature of these very formations and practices. Scholars studying the literature ...

Original language	English
Journal	The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Volume	57
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	165-179
ISSN	0193-5380
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

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