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American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor
| American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Poems
12 ""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; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460295703321 |
| Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor
| American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
| ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Poems
12 ""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; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787224203321 |
| Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor
| American literature and science / / Robert J. Scholnick, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Literature and science - United States Science in literature |
| ISBN |
0-8131-9341-9
0-8131-4943-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Poems
12 ""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; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816141903321 |
| Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton
| Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton |
| Autore | Clayton Jay <1951-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.8 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Criticism - United States - History - 20th century English literature - Appreciation - United States Postmodernism (Literature) - United States Literature and science - United States Literature and science - Great Britain Romanticism - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
9780190289607
0190289600 9780197723371 0197723373 9781280503177 1280503173 9780195347739 0195347730 9781602569508 1602569509 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Dickens Browses the World Wide Web; One: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome; Two: The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James; Three: Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick; Four: Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia; Five: Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs; Six: Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium; Seven: Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca
Eight: Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910959634903321 |
Clayton Jay <1951->
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| Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / / Beth Widmaier Capo
| Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / / Beth Widmaier Capo |
| Autore | Capo Beth Widmaier <1973-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 220 p.) : : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 810.9/436346 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States
Race in literature Eugenics in literature Motherhood in literature Birth control in literature Abortion in literature American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524657503321 |
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Capo Beth Widmaier <1973->
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| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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