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2011
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Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science
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Contents
Volume One
C.C. Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler-Villani: Introduction: Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow
I: The Conflict of Science in Literature
Todd H.J. Pettigrew: “Millions Infinite”: Martial Mathematics in the First Part of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
Helen Doss: Milton’s Satan: Rationalizing Experience and the Experimental Scientific Method in Paradise Regain’d
Stephen Voyce: “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”: Restoration Poetics under the Microscope
C.C. Barfoot: “The Eunuch’s Child”: William King’s Transactions with the Royal Society
John R.M. Ames: Re-ordering Creation: Materialism, Monism, and Scientific Iconoclasm in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
Rebecca Knell: Re-evaluating Science and Romanticism: The Case of Erasmus Darwin’s The Loves of the Plants
Renata Schellenberg: Revising the Obvious: Goethe’s Opposition to Scientific Convention
J.D. Ballam: “Science as the Base of Wonders”: Rational Enquiry in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm
Malte Herwig: Ironic Science: Some Remarks on Humanism, Science, and Literature
Lucia Boldrini: Rattling the Cage of Meaning: Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the Two Cultures, and the Ethical Duty of the Writer
II: Bodily Science and Literature
Danielle Gurevitch: The Weasel, the Rose and Life after Death: Representations of Medieval Physiology in Marie de France’s Eliduc
William Henry Spates: Mythopoeia and Medicine: Decoding Fracastoro’s Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus
Monique W. Dull: “Little Irritations” in Mansfield Park
Elena Anastasaki: When Science Meets Fiction: Immortality in Balzac’s Le Centenaire ou les deux Béringheld
Galia Ofek: Thomas Hardy’s Morphology: Hair Formations in Scientific and Fictional Narratives
Amanda Mordavsky Caleb: Amoral Animality: H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau
Eric Miller: A Defect in Nature: The Figure of the Passenger Pigeon in Graeme Gibson and Other North American Writers
Lorna Fitzsimmons: Tertium Quid: Gertrude Stein and Psychical Research
Rosario Arias: Life After Man?: Posthumanity and Genetic Engineering in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Marie Aline Ferreira: “Toward a Science of Perfect Reproduction”?: Visions of Eugenics in Contemporary Fiction
May Chehab: Autobiography, Autobiology, Tautology: Marguerite Yourcenar’s Le Labyrinthe du Monde
Priya Venkatesan: The Narratives of Science: Literary Theory and Discovery in Molecular Biology
Evert Jan van Leeuwen: Theodore Roszak’s The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: A Countercultural Perspective on Alchemy, Gender and the Scientific Revolution
Kathleen Williams Renk: Debating Darwin: The Alchemy of A.S. Byatt and Pauline Melville
Carmen Lara Rallo: “She Thought Human Thoughts and Stone Thoughts”: Geology and the Mineral World in A.S. Byatt’s Fiction
Greta Olson: Transfers Between Science and Literature: Sexual Selection, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and T.C. Boyle’s Drop City
Ellen L. Arnold: Healing with Holograms: Science and Orality in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
Volume Two
III: Physics Old and New in Literature
Eva-Sabine Zehelein: Staging Science with Albert Einstein
Candice Kent: “How Does the Mind Move to Einstein’s Physics?”: Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts
Anthony Enns: A Sum Over Histories: Faulkner’s Reconfiguration of Space-Time
Jocelyn Emerson: What’s Love Got to Do with It?: A.R. Ammons, Leslie Scalapino and Chaotic Poetics
Ginger Jones and Kevin Ells: Chaos and Complexity in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
Burt Kimmelman: “Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself”: The New Physics, Charles Olson, and Avant-Garde Poetics
Peter Mudford: Contemporary Drama and the Uncertainty Principle
Michael H. Whitworth: “Within the Ray of Light”, and Without: The New Physics and Modernist Simultaneity
IV: The Politics of Science in Literature
Robert Druce: “The Iron Horses of the Steam”: Dickens, Thoreau, Zola and the Steam Locomotive
Elmar Schenkel: H.G. Wells and Speed
Robert S. Friedman: Surveying the Empirical Sublime: Thoreau, Literary and Scientific
Philip J. Kowalski: “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”: Lamarckian Domesticity in Catharine Beecher and Horace Bushnell
Marguérite Corporaal: “So Cold, so Lofty and so Distant”: Science, Religion and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American and Canadian Women’s Poetry
Jerry Hoeg: Literary Portrayals of Science as a Function of Socio-Environmental Relations in the Spanish-Speaking World
John Cusatis: “The Curious Desire of Knowing”: Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Science
Patricia McCloskey Engle: Reprising the Epistemological Function of Narrative: Intersections of Science and Mysticism in Ceremony and Slaughterhouse-Five
Derek C. Maus: Luddites of the Nuclear Age: Cold War Satire and the Fallacies of Quasi-Scientific Rhetoric
Derek J. Thiess: Lighting Cigars at the Heart of a Nightingale: Aestheticism and the Science Wars in L’Eve future
Sarah Dauncey: Forensic Anthropology and the Reconstruction of History in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Naama Harel: Constructing the Nonhuman as Human: Scientific Fallacy, Literary Device
Notes on Contributors
Index I: Selected Motifs, Topics, Themes
Index II: Authors, Texts and Publications, Selected Proper Names
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