Modernism, Science, and Technology

Zusatztext Modernism, Science, and Technology … mounts a powerful case for interdisciplinarity as the primary way by which the connections among the three nouns of its title have become legible, and by which modernist studies has been productively transformed by multiple discourses and fields of study. Informationen zum Autor Mark S. Morrisson is Professor and Head of Department at Penn State University, USA. A former President of the Modernist Studies Association, he is co-editor of The Journal of Periodical Studies and his previous books include The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920 (2001) and Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (2007). Klappentext "An introductory survey of the scientific and technological contexts of modernist writing, a central topic of contemporary modernist studies"--An introductory survey of the scientific and technological contexts of modernist writing, a central topic of contemporary modernist studies."An introductory survey of the scientific and technological contexts of modernist writing, a central topic of contemporary modernist studies"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Modernism and Science Studies2. The Physical Sciences and Mathematics3. The Life Sciences4. The Social Sciences5. "Pseudosciences"BibliographyIndex

List of contents

1. Introduction: Modernism and Science Studies
2. The Physical Sciences and Mathematics
3. The Life Sciences
4. The Social Sciences
5. "Pseudosciences"
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mark S. Morrisson

Product details

• Authors: Mark S Morrisson, Mark S. Morrisson, Mark S. (Penn State University Morrisson
• Assisted by: Sean Latham (Editor), Gayle Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781474233415
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-3341-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: New Modernisms; New Modernisms
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000