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Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Choi, Tina Young (Contribuidor), Engelstein, Stefani (Contribuidor), Holland, Jocelyn (Contribuidor), House, Michael (Contribuidor), Kuzniar, Alice (Contribuidor), Lehleiter, Christine (Contribuidor, Editor ), McIsaac, Peter M. (Contribuidor), Newman, Daniel Aureliano (Contribuidor), Noyes, John K. (Contribuidor), Shteir, Ann (Contribuidor), Weber, A. Dana (Contribuidor), Weber, Christian P. (Contribuidor), Wilke, Tobias (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature, 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature.
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
German literature, 18th century > History and criticism.
German literature.
Literature and science > Germany > History, 18th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History, 18th century.
Literature and science > Germany > History > 18th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain - Thoughts on a Contentious Relationship
  • Part I - Reading: Electricity, Medicine
  • 1. Facts Are What One Makes of Them: Constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and Early German Romanticism
  • 2. The Competing Structures of Signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Between 18th-Century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics
  • Part II - Imagining: Botany, Chemistry, Thermodynamics
  • 3. "She comes! - the GODDESS!": Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden
  • 4. Elective Affinities / Wahlverwandtschaften: The Career of a Metaphor
  • 5. Physics Disarmed: Probabilistic Knowledge in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot
  • Part III - Sensing: Anthropology, Psychology, Aesthetics
  • 6. Herder's Unsettling of the Distinction between Fact and Fiction
  • 7. Fictional Feedback: Empirical Souls and Self-Deception in the Magazine for Empirical Psychology and Beyond
  • 8. Fictional Feelings: Psychological Aesthetics and the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure
  • Part IV - Relating: Biology
  • 9. Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion
  • 10. Kin Selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the Fate of Characters in Forster's The Longest Journey
  • Part V - Displaying: Scientific Collections
  • 11. Anatomy Collections in and of the Mind: Science, the Body, and Language in the Writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche
  • 12. Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-century German Exhibition Culture
  • Contributors
  • Index

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