Open Fields

Science in Cultural Encounter

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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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 Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking, from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include 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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Utgivningsdatum1999-03-11
Mått139 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt444 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198186359

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Beer's prose both entices and, one might say in a Beerism, disequilibrates: it makes it impossible for readers to relax. Her words are never casual and serve not only the obvious utilitarian effect of getting it right but of getting it right in ways we never would have thought of on our own; ... The seductive strenuousness of Beer's prose derives from her sense of the relentless fluidity of language and experience, ... Words come alive, both in her criticism and in the subjects of her study, ... it is important to recognize that her true power and authority as critic reside not in theorizing - a practice at which she is nevertheless quite impressive - but in the precision, scholarly authority, and brillance of her engagement with words, texts, history, and ideas./George Levine/Jnl of English and Germanic Philology, July 1998