03347nam 2200637 450 991081614190332120200520144314.00-8131-9341-90-8131-4943-6(CKB)3710000000333815(EBL)1914929(SSID)ssj0001401376(PQKBManifestationID)12539540(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401376(PQKBWorkID)11349784(PQKB)11705599(OCoLC)645852644(MdBmJHUP)muse43707(Au-PeEL)EBL1914929(CaPaEBR)ebr11011712(CaONFJC)MIL690667(OCoLC)900344297(MiAaPQ)EBC1914929(EXLCZ)99371000000033381520150227h20101992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican literature and science /Robert J. Scholnick, editorLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2010.©19921 online resource (296 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59385-X 0-8131-1785-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Permeable Boundaries: Literature and Science in America; 2 ""This Brazen Serpent Is a Doctors Shop"": Edward Taylor's Medical Vision; 3 Benjamin Franklin: The Fusion of Science and Letters; 4 Thomas Jefferson; 5 An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe's Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics; 6 Fields of Investigation: Emerson and Natural History; 7 Thoreau and Science; 8 (Pseudo-) Scientific Humor; 9 Traveling in Time with Mark Twain; 10 Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; 11 Fields of Spacetime and the ""I"" in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems12 ""Unfurrowing the Mind's Plowshare"": Fiction in a Cybernetic Age13 Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence; Bibliography: American Literature and Science through 1989; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZLiterature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, ""were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor."" By mid-century they had diverged, but literature and science have continued to interact, conflict, and illuminate each other. In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of American writers with science and uncover science's conflicting meaniAmerican literatureHistory and criticismLiterature and scienceUnited StatesScience in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and scienceScience in literature.810.9/356Scholnick Robert J.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816141903321American literature and science1125632UNINA