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work_exkwxragibeclmechsjofrvq6m	Morgan Rooney	Helen Thompson. Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 359. $59.95 (cloth)	2018	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1909	92	48	Displaying an impressive command of early modern science in her engaging and highly interdisciplinary Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel, Helen Thompson strives to (re)assert the central place of "Corpuscularian Philosophy" (1) in the history of seventeenthand eighteenth-century British culture. Modern accounts of seventeenthand eighteenth-century science and the novel, Thompson acknowledge seventeenthand eighteenth-century British culture's indebtedness to the corpuscle, such studies have obscured how empiricism accommodates knowledge acquired relationally. eighteenth-century science and the novel engage or activate, in a variety of ways. As Thompson stresses, Fictional Matter is not in any straightforward way a study of the eighteenth-century novel against the "factual backdrop" early modern science (3). she organizes the chapters according to topics that develop readings of the works of early scientists and empiricists such as Boyle, Locke, and Newton alongside those of the novelists it seventeenthand eighteenth-century understanding of empiricism and its role in early modern As Thea Tomaini makes clear in The Corpse as Text: Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry,	./cache/work_exkwxragibeclmechsjofrvq6m.pdf	./txt/work_exkwxragibeclmechsjofrvq6m.txt