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Title:

Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain / edited by Christine Lehleiter.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and science--Germany--History--18th century.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Science in literature.

Other Authors:

Lehleiter, Christine, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Fact and fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and fiction's twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin's poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Goethe's Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two.

ISBN:

1442645989
9781442645981

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946460080

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)