Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s converging realms / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes.
| Other author | Lemos, Márcia. |
| Other author | Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | xviii, 211 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Part I. Collecting, historicising, and imagining : approaching science in the nineteenth century. The collector at home / Alda Rodrigues ; "The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry": signs of nature's history in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural hours / Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves ; Science and imagination in Emily Dickinson's Poetry / Joana Espain -- 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 / Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk ; "No man can put all the world in a book": on the concept of scienctific representation in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Pedro Almeida and Ines Evangelista Marques ; Scientific expression in Thomas Pynchon's work / Ana Rull Suarez -- 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 / M. Luz González-Rodriguez ; Science imparted by literature: a meeting of "the two cultures" in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Alexandra Cheira ; The idea is the thing: science plays after Copenhagen / Teresa Botelho -- Part IV. "Medical literature": exchanges and convergence. The fantasy of ectogenesis in interwar Britain: texts and contexts / Aline Ferreira ; Dr W.H.R. Rivers and Dr Lewis R. Yealland: the literary representation of scientific discourse in the deployment of power / David Griffiths ; Speaking with angels: hell and madness in António Lobo Antunes' Conhecimento do inferno (a health humanities perspective) / Ricardo Rúben Rato Rodrigues ; The paradox of reading autistic fiction / Makai Péter Kristóf. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020479639 |
| ISBN | 1443812730 |
| ISBN | 9781443812733 |
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