Literature and Science

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

List of contents

From Popular Science to Contemplation: the Clouds of The Cloud of Unknow ing - Gillian Rudd
"Dreams and Plain Dotage": the Value of The Birth of Mankind [1540-1 654] - 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 Possibilities in the "Fourth Dimensio n" - 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

Summary

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

Product details

• Authors: David Amigoni, Brian Baker, Elaine Hobby, Alice Jenkins, Sharon Ruston
• Assisted by: Sharon Ruston (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2008
• EAN: 9781843841784
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-178-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Weight: 478 g
• Illustrations: 3 b/w illus.
• Series: Essays and Studies; English Association: Essays an
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)