Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms /

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This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lemos, Márcia (Editor ), Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Literature and science > History.
Science in literature > History.
Littérature et sciences > Histoire.
Sciences dans la littérature > Histoire.
Literature & literary studies.
Science: general issues.
Medicine.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Collecting, Historicising, and Imagining; The Collector at Home; "The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry
  • Science and Imagination in Emily Dickinson's Poetry; Part II: Science as a Problem; Through the Ironic Eye; "No man can put all the world in a book"; Scientific Expression in Thomas Pynchon's Work; Part III: Consilience and the Two Cultures
  • The Presence of Science in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Cosmic Vision; Science Imparted by Literature; The Idea is the Thing; Part IV: Medical Literature
  • The Fantasy of Ectogenesis in Interwar BritainDr W.H.R. Rivers and Dr Lewis R. Yealland; Speaking with Angels; The Paradox of Reading Autistic Fiction; Contributors; Index

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