Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 From Popular Science To Contemplation: The Clouds Of The Cloud Of Unknowing
- 2 ‘Dreams And Plain Dotage’: The Value Of The Birth Of Mankind (1540–1654)
- 3 Natural Rights And Natural History In Anna Barbauld And Mary Wollstonecraft
- 4 George Eliot, Geometry And Gender
- 5 On The Back Of The Light Waves: Novel Possibilities In The ‘Fourth Dimension’
- 6 Le Fanu's ‘Carmilla’, Ireland, And Diseased Vision
- 7 Evolution, Literary History And Science Fiction
- 8 ‘The Luxury Of Storytelling’: Science, Literature And Cultural Contest In Ian Mcewan's Narrative Practice
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 From Popular Science To Contemplation: The Clouds Of The Cloud Of Unknowing
- 2 ‘Dreams And Plain Dotage’: The Value Of The Birth Of Mankind (1540–1654)
- 3 Natural Rights And Natural History In Anna Barbauld And Mary Wollstonecraft
- 4 George Eliot, Geometry And Gender
- 5 On The Back Of The Light Waves: Novel Possibilities In The ‘Fourth Dimension’
- 6 Le Fanu's ‘Carmilla’, Ireland, And Diseased Vision
- 7 Evolution, Literary History And Science Fiction
- 8 ‘The Luxury Of Storytelling’: Science, Literature And Cultural Contest In Ian Mcewan's Narrative Practice
- Index
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- Literature and Science , pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008