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Gillian Beer
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Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
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352 |
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1999-05-13 |
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0198186355 |
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Oxford University Press, USA |
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0.93 pounds |
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5.39 x 0.83 x 8.35 inches |
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Product Description
Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of change, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of the essays centers on Darwin; other essays look at Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.
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http://bookmooch.com/0198186355 |
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