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litsci-l-digest Monday, July 4 2005 Volume 01 : Number
110
In this issue:
literature and science seminar-- invitation
NEW BOOK : SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 21:37:55 -0500
From: "Black, Suzanne H."
Subject: literature and science seminar-- invitation
Dear colleagues:
Are any of you (or your students) planning to attend the Modernist
Studies Association (MSA)'s annual meeting? This year it takes place the
week before SLSA but also in Chicago.
If so, I'd like to invite you to participate in a seminar session I'm
organizing on modernism in literature and in science.
Anyone who'd like more information is very welcome to contact me at
blacksh@cla.purdue.edu ; there are also more details on the conference
website:
http://www.luc.edu/msachicago/
Best regards,
Suzanne Black
Suzanne Black
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
Ph: 765.496.1647
blacksh@cla.purdue.edu
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:56:19 +0100
From: John Cartwright
Subject: NEW BOOK : SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
List members may be interested in the following new title:
Literature and Science by John H Cartwright and Brian Baker, ABC -Clio,
Santa Barbara, June 2005. ISBN : 1-85109-458-X. 470 pages
A chronological survey of the interactions between science and Anglo-
American literature from the late middle ages to the 20th century. A
text
addressed to undergraduates and the general reader. Cartwright and
Baker both work at University College Chester in the UK
CONTENTS
1. Medieval Cosmology and European Literature: Dante and Chaucer
Aristotelian Cosmology
Dante and The Divine Comedy
Chaucer
2. Science and literature in the Elizabethan Renaissance
Natural philosophy
Elizabethan commonplaces
Satire
Breaking Boundaries
3. Science and Literature in Seventeenth Century England
Affecting the Metaphysical
The World??s Decay
The Redemption of Natural Philosophy
The Royal Society
Satire and the Virtuosi
Science and the language of literature
Milton
4.Science and literature 1680 - 1790
Of Newton, to the Muses Dear
Pope and The Essay on Man
Jonathan Swift
Nature Poems; scientific and moral
The Didactic Poem
5. The touch of cold philosophy: the response to science in Romantic
literature 1790-1840
Unweaving the rainbow
The Romantic revolution- context and characteristics
Romantic Epistemologies
Wordsworth and Newton
Mary Shelley??s Frankenstein
6. Nineteenth Century American Literature and Science: problems of
analogy
The analogical method
Changes in nineteenth-century science
American Nature and Spirituality
Moby-Dick and classification systems
Moby-Dick: analogy, anatomy and autopsy
Nature and the Transcendentalists
Science and Religion: the way to Hell
Science, non-science and nonsense: the case of Edgar Allan Poe
7. Those Dreadful Hammers: geology and evolution in 19th century
literature
Geology comes of age
Lamarck and Chambers
Tennyson
Darwin and The Origin of Species
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
8. Darwin??s Gothic: Science and Literature in the Late Nineteenth
Century
Darwin and ?´Progress??
Herbert Spencer and ?´Social Darwinism??
The Time Machine
The Time Machine and evolution
The Time Machine and race
Theories of degeneration
Cesare Lombroso??s ?´Criminal Man??
Atavism and Dracula
Degeneration and Sherlock Holmes
Thomas Hardy??s Tess of the D??Urbervilles
Reversion and ?´The Creeping Man??
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
9. Themes in Science Fiction
The fantastic journey
Evolution and humanity
Science fiction and Time
The Robots
Dystopia: the machine state
10. Science and Literature in the Twentieth century: From Entropy to
Chaos
Thermodynamics and Entropy
Entropy and post-war literature
Entropy and information
Cybernetics and cyborgs
Cyberpunk, bifurcation points and chaos theory
Back to the Future: The Difference Engine
11. The Two Cultures Debates
Two Cultures: an anatomy of a cultural divide
The Battle of the Books
The Romantic Revolution and varieties of truth
The Huxley-Arnold debate
C.P. Snow and Two Cultures
12. Cultural Wars and Imperial Ambitions
Realism and Social Constructivism
Can Literature be explored scientifically?
The Third Culture and Popular Science Writing
Epilogue: A Time for Cultural Exchange
Glossary
Primary sources
Bibliographic guides
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