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Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter

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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, Beer tracks encounters between science,
literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of change, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of the essays centers on Darwin; other essays look at 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

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: March 28, 1996

ISBN: 0198183690

ISBN 13: 9780198183693

Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter

4/5 ( ratings)

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, Beer tracks encounters between science,
literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of change, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of the essays centers on Darwin; other essays look at 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

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: March 28, 1996

ISBN: 0198183690

ISBN 13: 9780198183693

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