Literature and Science

This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is increasingly influencing both university curricula and future areas of investigation. Martin Willis explores the development of the genre and its surrounding criticism from the early modern period to the present day, focusing on key texts, topics and debates.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Institutions
2. Early Literature and Science Criticism
3. The Dominance of Darwin
4. Body
5. Mind
6. The Physical Sciences, Exploration and the Environment
7. Geology, Botany, Eugenics and Animal Studies
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

About the author

Martin Willis

Product details

• Authors: Martin Willis, Willis Martin
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2014
• EAN: 9780230298187
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29818-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Political Science and International Studies, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History