Keeping Our Nerve: Scientific and Historical Paradigms in John Banville’s Doctor Copernicus
Keywords:
literature and history, historiography, historical novel, science, scientific paradigm, Copernican turn, Banville, JohnAbstract
Drawing on Collingwood and Kuhn, the article shows how Banville’s 1976 Doctor Copernicus delineates a scientific; historical “paradigm” by linking the “revolutions” of early modernity to the crisis of knowledge of the latter part of the 20th century, emphasising the need for historical awareness.References
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