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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136393003321

Autore

Lehleiter Christine

Titolo

Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain / / Christine Lehleiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Toronto Press, 2016

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2016

ISBN

1-4426-6414-2

1-4426-6413-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Open Access e-Books.

Knowledge Unlatched.

Classificazione

DB 1000

Disciplina

830.9/36

Soggetti

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

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Germany

Great Britain

Deutschland

Grossbritannien

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel



Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" : narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. Weber -- Physics disarmed : probabilistic knowledge in the works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot / Tina Young Choi -- Herder's unsettling of the distinction between fact and fiction / John K. Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. McIsaac -- Vivifying the uncanny : ethnographic mannequins and exotic performers in nineteenth-century German exhibition culture / A. Dana Weber.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--