Open fields : science in cultural encounter / Gillian Beer
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TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9780198186359Subject(s): English literatures | Old English literatures | English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures | Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Science in literature | Civilization | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and science | Great Britain | ScienceDDC classification: 820.9356 BEE Summary: Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays track encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Calling on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, including Darwin and Hardy, Gillian Beer throws new light on the rise of modernism, and on current controversies concerning science in culture.
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Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays track encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Calling on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, including Darwin and Hardy, Gillian Beer throws new light on the rise of modernism, and on current controversies concerning science in culture.
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