Open Fields : Science in Cultural Encounter
by
Beer
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198186355
ISBN-13
9780198186359
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 11th, 1999
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
448 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 13.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -History of ideas
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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 a different light on the rise of modernism, and on current controversies concerning science in culture.
Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth- century writing Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking, from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism, and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.
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