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"In 1959 C.P. Snow memorably described the 'gulf of mutual incomprehension' which existed between 'literary intellectuals' and scientists, referring to them as 'two cultures'. This volume looks at the extent to which this has changed. Ranging from the middle ages t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ;
v. 61. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From popular science to contemplation: the clouds of The cloud of unknowing / Gillian Rudd
- 'Dreams and plain dotage': the value of The birth of mankind (1540-1654) / Elaine Hobby
- Natural rights and natural history in Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft / Sharon Ruston
- George Eliot, geometry and gender / Alice Jenkins
- On the back of the light waves: novel possibilitieses in the 'fourth dimension' / Katy Price
- Le Fanu's 'Carmilla', Ireland, and diseased vision / Martin Willis
- Evolution, literary history and science fiction / Brian Baker
- 'The luxury of storytelling': science, literature and cultural contest in Ian McEwan's narrative practice / David Amigoni.