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Literature and science in the nineteenth century : an anthology /
This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Mic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Literature and science
- Mathematics, physical science, and technology. Mathematics
- Physical science
- Telecommunications
- Bodies and machines
- Sciences of the body. Animal electricity
- Cells and tissues and their relation to the body
- Hygiene, germ theory, and infectious diseases
- Experimental medicine and vivisection
- Evolution. The present and the past
- The individual and the species
- Sexual selection
- Sciences of the mind. The relationship between mind and body
- Physiognomy and phrenology
- Mesmerism and magnetism
- Dreams and the unconscious
- Nervous exhaustion
- Social sciences. Creating the social sciences
- Race science
- Urban poverty
- Degeneration
- Epilogue: Science and literature.