Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s Converging Realms 1st Edition by Márcia Lemos ISBN 1443812730 9781443812733

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ISBN 10: 1443812730

ISBN 13: 978-1443812733

Author:  Márcia Lemos 

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s: Converging Realms 1st Edition: This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century, the work collected here is firmly focused on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices, and especially on the manifold representations of science and scientists in literature and the arts. Its four sections develop from an initial moment of dwindling indefiniteness of borders between literature and the sciences to the historical perception of an increasing divide between “the two cultures,” to use C.P. Snow’s influential expression, as well as calls for a form of convergence or “consilience” in Edward Wilson’s words. The final section turns to the medical sciences, a porous scientific discipline in relation to the humanities, which suggests that consilience can already be found partially in specific areas. As such, this collection contributes towards critically extending that integration through the discussion of key literary representations of science, its promises, and its problems.

 

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s: Converging Realms 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I: COLLECTING, HISTORICISING AND IMAGINING: APPROACHING SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

• The Collector at Home
• “The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry”: Signs of Nature’s History in Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours
• Science and Imagination in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

PART II: SCIENCE AS A PROBLEM: KNOWLEDGE AND SUSPICION

• Through the Ironic Eye: Science and Scientific Experiments in Marcin Wolski’s Satirical Dystopia Laboratory No. 8
• “No man can put all the world in a book”: On the Concept of Scientific Representation in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
• Scientific Expression in Thomas Pynchon’s Work

PART III: CONSILIENCE AND “THE TWO CULTURES”

• The Presence of Science in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Cosmic Vision: An Ephemeral Creation of Order out of Chaos
• Science Imparted by Literature: A Meeting of “the Two Cultures” in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction
• The Idea is the Thing: Science Plays after Copenhagen

PART IV: “MEDICAL LITERATURE”: EXCHANGES AND CONVERGENCE

• The Fantasy of Ectogenesis in Interwar Britain: Texts and Contexts
• Dr W. H. R. Rivers and Dr Lewis R. Yealland: The Literary Representation of Scientific Discourse in the Deployment of Power
• Speaking with Angels: Hell and Madness in António Lobo Antunes’ Conhecimento do Inferno (A Health Humanities Perspective)
• The Paradox of Reading Autistic Fiction

 

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