Emerson's Life in Science : The Culture of Truth /

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"In Emerson's Life in Science, she makes the case that no study of literary history can be complete without embracing science as part of literature. Conversely, she maintains, no history of science is complete unless we consider the role played by writers of literature who helped to instal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo > 1803-1882
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Knowledge > Science.
Wissenschaft
Wahrheit
Science in literature.
Science.
Literature and science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Sciences dans la litterature.
Litterature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Sphinx at the crossroads
  • Converting the world: knowledge, science, power
  • Gnomic science: the body and the law
  • Global polarity and the single life
  • Truth against the world
  • The solar eye of science.

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