| Description |
viii, 359 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Science and literature |
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Science and literature.
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| Contents |
One culture: Science and literature / George Levine -- Problems of description in the language of discovery / Gillian Beer -- Montaigne, Boyle, and the Essay of Experience / James Paradis -- George Lewes' scientific aesthetic: Restructuring the ideology of the symbol / Peter Allan Dale -- Information or noise? Economy of explanation in Barthes's S/Z and Shannon's information theory / N. Katherine Hayles -- "Catching light": Physics and art in Walter Pater's cultural context / Donald R. Benson -- Symmetry/disruption: A paradox in modern science and literature / Richard Pearce -- Balzac with Laplace: Remarks on the status of chance in Balzacian narrative / David F. Bell -- Darwin and the genre of biography / Robert M. Young -- The erotics of evolution: Constance Naden and hylo-idealism / James R. Moore -- Bedlam and Parnassus: Mad people's writing in Georgian England / Roy Porter -- Frankenstein: A feminist critique of science / Anne K. Mellor -- "The surveillance of a sleepless eye": The constitution of neurosis in Villette / Sally Shuttleworth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and science.
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Science in literature.
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Literature -- english
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Literature -- french
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Literature -- history.
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| Author |
Levine, George, 1931-
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Rauch, Alan.
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| LC no. |
87040143 |
| ISBN |
0299113000 |
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0299113043 (paperback) |
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