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American literature and science /
Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, ""were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1992.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Permeable boundaries : literature and science in America / Robert I. Scholnick
- "This brazen serpent is a doctors shop" : Edward Taylor's medical vision / Catherine Rainwater
- Benjamin Franklin : the fusion of science and letters / A. Owen Aldridge
- Thomas Jefferson / Joseph W. Slade
- An intrinsic luminosity : Poe's use of Platonic and Newtonian optics / William J. Scheick
- Fields of investigation : Emerson and natural history / David M. Robinson
- Thoreau and science / Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
- (Pseudo- ) scientific humor / Judith Yaross Lee
- Traveling in time with Mark Twain / H. Bruce Franklin
- Hart Crane and John Dos Passos / Joseph W. Slade
- Fields of spacetime and the "I" in Charles Olson's The maximus poems / Steven Carter
- "Unfurrowing the mind's plowshare" : fiction in a cybernetic age / David Porush
- Turbulence in literature and science : questions of influence / N. Katherine Hayles
- Bibliography : American literature and science through 1989 / Robert S. Scholnick.