num_pages: 264
description: This book presents fourteen new essays by leading British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillian Beer, the collection pays homage to her major contribution to the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary sciences in nineteenth-century Britain, on psychoanalysis from Freud through to the late 1930s, and on the cultural contexts of science in the first half of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer
titlecomplete: Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press