Membranes - Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth Century Literature, Science

Defying the traditional boundary between science and the humanities, she concludes by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.

About the author

Laura Otis is an associate professor of English at Hofstra University. She is the author of Organic Memory, an analysis of heredity and memory in literature and science, and Networking (forthcoming). She received an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship to support her research at the Max Planck Institut in Berlin, and was recently granted a MacArthur Fellowship to study the relations between science, literature, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Otis
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2000
• EAN: 9780801865275
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6527-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Medicine and Culture (Paperbac; Medicine and Culture; Medicine and Culture; Medicine and Culture (Paperbac
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies