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digest 1998-01-27 #001
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From: "Society for Literature & Science"
Daily SLS Email Digest
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Date: 26 Jan 1998 10:14:38 -0800
From: "Pamela S Gossin"
Subject: Encyclopedia Update
This message has been sent via regular mail to all confirmed
contributors of the Encyclopedia of Lit and Sci, but its plea for
additional participation may be of general interest to others on this
listserv. I encourage any SLS'ers to contribute! As always, the
general idea is for every entry to focus on the interrelations of lit
and sci, the literary aspects of scientific topics/figures and the
sci'fic aspects of literary entries.
An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pamela Gossin
(Greenwood Press).
Friendly reminder: The deadline for most contributions for the Encyc
of LS is coming soon: February 15, 1998. Please follow the
guidelines (dated Oct 15) in preparing your materials for submission.
All contract information was sent from here to Greenwood at the end of
the year as promised. I have not yet heard how long it will take to
generate a contract mailing to you. As soon as I know, I will post a
note on the SLS listserv. The contracts will confirm the list of
entries, their lengths, and the compensation and deadline we have
agreed to. If any changes have been requested and granted in the
interim, please make them in writing upon the contract. Since our
publication goal is 1999, we have plenty of time to get contracts in
line, so please send in your entries on time so editing tasks can
begin as soon as possible.
Friendly request: The following items are still desperately seeking
authors! As the list grows more eclectic, the difficulty of finding
equally eclectic scholars to write them intensifies. As you can see,
some entries are "must haves" (an encyclopedia of LS with no
Blake?!)
If any contributors currently working on their entries would be
willing and able to take on any of these entries in addition to their
present lists, I am offering shameless extensions as bribes! I would
also be most grateful for the names and email addresses of scholars
who might be good matches for any of the topics below. Thank you for
your help in all regards. You have all been great resources for this
project.
Email: psgossin@utdallas.edu OR psgossin@telepath.com Reg. Mail: 405
Golden Oaks Dr. Norman, OK 73072 Phone: 405-360-2958
AVAILABLE
THEMES AND TOPICS
SEVENTEENTH and EIGHTEENTH C.
Africa (LS in) 1000
William Blake 250
Asia (LS in) 1000
S. Cyrano de Bergerac 50
21st c. (LS in) 1500
Samuel Pepys 50
botany 100
Rabelais 100
classification systems/nomenclature 100 Thomas
Shadwell 50
detective fiction 100
Vico 50
economics 100
Mary Wolstonecraft 100
engineering/engineers 150
NINETEENTH C. (death dates to 1940)
machine 100
Robert Burton 50
music 100
Robert Chambers 50
nebular hypothesis 50
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 75
publishing/printing/books 150
Gustave Flaubert 100
race 300
Edmond & Jules Goncourt 50
sociology 300
Edmund Gosse 50
symbolist movement 100
technicians/technician-hero 100
Thomas Malthus 50
ANCIENT
Herman Melville 75
Aristotle 150
Jules Michelet 50
Hesiod 75
Marcel Proust d.1922 75
"Hippocrates"/ Hippocratic writings 100
Clemence Royer 50
Horace 50
Herbert Spencer 50
Lucian 75
Jules Verne 100
Plato 150
Presocratic philosophers 150
TWENTIETH C.
MEDIEVAL
Douglas Adams 75
Chaucer 100
John Banville 75
Dante Alighieri 100
Ralph Ellison 50
Marsilio Ficino 50
Penelope Fitzgerald 50
Leonardo da Vinci 100
Benoit Mandelbrot 50
G. Pico della Mirandola 50
Gloria Naylor 50
Sam Shepherd 50
John Updike 50
THESE ENTRIES MAY BE AVAILABLE SOON (Some need "back-up: authors;
some invitations pending)
Gender and Sexuality 1250
naturalism 100
Northern Europe (LS in) 1000
England (LS in) 1500
plurality of worlds 100
Australia (LS in) 1000
pregnancy/pregnancy loss 100
North Am.--Canada (LS in) 750 realism
100
(LS in) Antiquity 1500
reproduction 50
(LS in ) Middle Ages 1500 Schl of
Lit, Comm, Culture (GIT) 200
Biography/autobiography 1250 Science
Studies Prog (PSU) 200
Metaphor/Tropes 1250
simulation (of life) 50
Film 1250
visual imagery 100
alterity 200
ANCIENT-EARLY MODERN-18th C
astrology 150 Galen
75
coma(s) 50 William
Harvey 100
computer games 150 Johannes Kepler
100
computer science 200 A. Osiander
50
computers 200 Isaac
Newton 500
corporeality (body) 200
cryonics 75
19th-20th C
genetic engineering 250 George Eliot
250
genomics 100 Michael
Faraday 100
gynecology 100 Henry James
100
hermeneutics 250 Thomas Mann
75
language 500 John
Tyndall 50 /
Gilles Deleuze 75
magic 50 Theodore Dreiser
50
maternity 50 Loren
Eiseley 200
mobius bodies 50 Charlotte
Haldane 50
morphology 150 Max Muller
50
mythology (Greco-Roman) 300 Valdimir Nabokov
75
Pamela S. Gossin (psgossin@telepath.com)
