Atavistic tendencies [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of science in American modernity / / Dana Seitler |
Autore | Seitler Dana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Atavism - History - 19th century Atavism - History - 20th century Biology - United States - History - 19th century Biology - United States - History - 20th century Eugenics in literature Human reproduction in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8166-6642-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Down on All Fours; 1 Freud's Menagerie: Our Atavistic Sense of Self; 2 Late Modern Morphologies: Scientific Empiricism and Photographic Representation; 3 "Wolf-wolf!": Narrating the Science of Desire; 4 Atavistic Time: Tarzan, Dr. Fu Manchu, and the Serial Dime Novel; 5 Unnatural Selection: Mothers, Eugenic Feminism, and Regeneration Narratives; 6 An Atavistic Embrace: Ape, Gorilla, Wolf, Man; Coda: Being-Now, Being-Then; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454626403321 |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 | ||
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Atavistic tendencies [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of science in American modernity / / Dana Seitler |
Autore | Seitler Dana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Atavism - History - 19th century Atavism - History - 20th century Biology - United States - History - 19th century Biology - United States - History - 20th century Eugenics in literature Human reproduction in literature |
ISBN | 0-8166-6642-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Down on All Fours; 1 Freud's Menagerie: Our Atavistic Sense of Self; 2 Late Modern Morphologies: Scientific Empiricism and Photographic Representation; 3 "Wolf-wolf!": Narrating the Science of Desire; 4 Atavistic Time: Tarzan, Dr. Fu Manchu, and the Serial Dime Novel; 5 Unnatural Selection: Mothers, Eugenic Feminism, and Regeneration Narratives; 6 An Atavistic Embrace: Ape, Gorilla, Wolf, Man; Coda: Being-Now, Being-Then; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782850203321 |
Seitler Dana
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 | ||
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Discours et objets scientifiques dans l’imaginaire américain du xixe siècle / / Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Claire Maniez |
Autore | Collomb Jean-Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Grenoble, : UGA Éditions, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DuboisRené
GrangerMichel Ludot-VlasakRonan MachuDidier MonfortBruno NiemeyerMark ScarpaSébastien StroeMihai A TanguyGuillaume ManiezClaire |
Collana | Esthétique et représentation : monde anglophone (xviiie-xixe siècles) |
Soggetto topico |
Technology in literature
Science in literature American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
technologie
croyance science littérature comparée littérature américaine civilisation progrès création 19e siècle littérature étrangère histoire culturelle histoire des idées science poétique |
ISBN | 2-37747-269-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910522603403321 |
Collomb Jean-Daniel
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Grenoble, : UGA Éditions, 2021 | ||
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Herman Melville [[electronic resource] ] : stargazer / / Brett Zimmerman |
Autore | Zimmerman Brett <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Astronomy in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-85529-8
9786612855290 0-7735-6744-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454725803321 |
Zimmerman Brett <1958->
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998 | ||
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Herman Melville [[electronic resource] ] : stargazer / / Brett Zimmerman |
Autore | Zimmerman Brett <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Astronomy in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-85529-8
9786612855290 0-7735-6744-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Uranic Muse: Melville’s Knowledge of Astronomy -- The Cosmic Drama of Mardi -- Stars and Spiritual Navigation in Clarel -- Astronomical Imagery and Symbolic Antitheses in Billy Budd -- Final Thoughts on Melville and Astronomy -- Catalogue of References to Astronomical Subjects in Melville’s Writings -- More Maps and Drawings from Hiram Mattison’s Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt’s Geography of the Heavens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782721103321 |
Zimmerman Brett <1958->
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998 | ||
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Profound science and elegant literature [[electronic resource] ] : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America / / Stephanie P. Browner |
Autore | Browner Stephanie P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3093561 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Physicians in literature Literature and medicine - United States - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Medical fiction, American - History and criticism Physicians - United States Medicine in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-0148-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462644903321 |
Browner Stephanie P
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
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Profound science and elegant literature [[electronic resource] ] : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America / / Stephanie P. Browner |
Autore | Browner Stephanie P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3093561 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Physicians in literature Literature and medicine - United States - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Medical fiction, American - History and criticism Physicians - United States Medicine in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies Literature |
ISBN | 0-8122-0148-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787519403321 |
Browner Stephanie P
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
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Science and technology in the age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James [[electronic resource] ] : thinking and writing electricity / / Sam Halliday |
Autore | Halliday Sam |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.73/09034 |
Collana | American literature readings in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Science - United States - History - 19th century
Technology - United States - History - 19th century Electricity - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36321-9
9786611363215 0-230-60509-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Time and Space; 2 Individual Difference and Self-Representation; 3 Sympathy and Reciprocity; 4 Connection and Division; 5 Inclusion and Exclusion; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450919503321 |
Halliday Sam
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / / Laura Dassow Walls |
Autore | Walls Laura Dassow |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Natural history - United States - History - 19th century Science in literature Nature in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-42408-4
9786612424083 0-299-14743-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455117203321 |
Walls Laura Dassow
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Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1995 | ||
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Seeing new worlds [[electronic resource] ] : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / / Laura Dassow Walls |
Autore | Walls Laura Dassow |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) |
Collana | Science and literature |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century
Natural history - United States - History - 19th century Science in literature Nature in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-42408-4
9786612424083 0-299-14743-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778416803321 |
Walls Laura Dassow
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Madison WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995 | ||
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