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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 April 2018
      03 May 2018
      ISBN:
      9781139942096
      9781107079724
      9781107439030
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139942096
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 350 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 350 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Book description

    In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism, cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.

    Reviews

    'The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science is a serious, substantial, and illuminating volume. The contributors are among the most highly regarded and influential scholars in their respective areas of expertise in literature and science. Together, their contributions provide a comprehensive, consistently informative, and frequently enlightening survey of what is an extremely varied and theoretically challenging interdisciplinary field. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars working in any area of literature and sciences studies.'

    Paul Peppis - University of Oregon

    '… original, transformative, and enormously valuable as a fresh perspective on the field.'

    Martin Willis Source: The British Society for Literature and Science Reviews (www.bsls.ac.uk)

    'It is an inclusive and urgent gathering of work, which presents an innovative and transformative broadening of the field of Literature and Science in the twenty-first century.'

    Gemma Curto Source: Notes and Queries

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    • 6 - Science Studies and Literary Theory
      pp 117-131
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