362 pages including Index. Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 1981. Trade Paperback.

Product Description: This issue explores the tensions between literature and the sciences, focusing on responses which see science as an alien ideology that threatens everything the arts hold dear, and on a more positive response that sees the sciences as providing new tools, viewpoints, and knowledge about the world...read more

An illustrated survey of the actual science behind recent science fiction investigates the frontiers of contemporary scientific knowledge and the possibility, and probability, of starships, cyborgs, time travel, and other 'science-fiction' phenomena

Product Description: 'Ebbatson demonstrates, with considerable originality and effectiveness, the impact of Darwin's theories on all of Hardy's novels, as well as some of his poetry, and of Herbert Spencer's theories especially on 'The Return of the Native.'

Product Description: An illuminating view of forensic science in fact and fiction. Underlines the relationship between detective fiction and the development of modern forensics. Begins with examples of chemistry at work in the novels of crime fiction writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L...read more

Product Description: For six years of his brief like, Keats studied medicine, first as an apprentice in Edmonton and then as a medical student at Guy’s Hospital in London. His biographers have generally glossed over this period of his life, and critics have ignored it and denied the influence of medical training on his poetry and thought...read more

Product Description: In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation...read more

Product Description: Includes index. Clean and tight copy. Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Contains some marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. NOT ex-library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR...read more

Product Description: "Margot Norris stalks her subject with intelligent vocabulary, critical sophistication and bristling analysis. She creates a new tradition to challenge previous ones, revealing unexpected affinities between Darwin and the modernists she treats...read more

Product Description: Natural Classicism is a work like no other- far-reaching, even visionary in its examination of the interconnectedness of nature and human endeavor. The book showcases Turner's exploration of- and attempt to integrate- principles of literature, art, music, biology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and aesthetics...read more

An anthology of writing by members of the group Oulipo. The Oulipians view imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by constraints, attempting to write stories in which strict rules are imposed and followed. Providing a contribution to literary theory and a guide to writers and students of creative writing. Originally published in 1986. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Jordanova, Ludmilla

Product Description: In this book a scientist and a literary critic combine their talents in order to assess the impact of the revolution in physical theory on literature. How did quantum theory and the general theory of relativity influence creative writers in the first half of this century? Beyond the community of scientists there was and still is much misunderstanding of Einstein and his achievements...read more

Product Description: Incorporates the work of the annual bibliographies of the Division on Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association of America from 1939 to 1980 with some additions and deletions and new entries for the period back to 1880.

Essays discuss the vernacular tradition, the literary view of technology, socialist criticism, and works by Melville, Frost and Twain

Darwin’s theory thrust human life into time and nature and subjected it to naturalistic rather than spiritual or moral analysis. Insisting on gradual and regular–lawful–change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. George Levine shows how these conceptions affected nineteenth–century novelists―from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad―and draws illuminating contrasts with the pre–Darwinian novel and the perspective of natural theology.Levine demonstrates how even writers ostensibly uninterested in science absorbed and influenced its vision. A central chapter treats the almost aggressively unscientific Trollope as the most Darwinian of the novelists, who worked out a gradualist realism that is representative of the mainstream of Victorian fiction and strikingly consonant with key Darwinian ideas. Levine’s boldly conceived analysis of such authors as Scott and Dickens demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of this revolution in thought and sheds new light on Victorian realism.

Product Description: Lewis Thomas (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Book 547)141 pp. "Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913?December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher...Many of his essays discuss relationships among ideas or concepts using etymology as a starting point...read more

Product Description: Analyzes the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, and describes their interest in science and technology

Product Description: When literary theory applies its methods of analysis to science, it reveals that such 'scientific' concepts as universality, validity, rationality, & truth are rarely the absolutes they seem to be. This volume considers specific issues in literary-scientific relations, addressing each issue by proposing a methodology suitable for the specific problems raised...read more