Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam: New York
ISBN-13: 9780691126630
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Volume One; title: C.C. Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler-Villani: Introduction: Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow; title: I: The Conflict of Science in Literature; title: Todd H.J. Pettigrew: “Millions Infinite”: Martial Mathematics in the First Part of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine; title: Helen Doss: Milton’s Satan: Rationalizing Experience and the Experimental Scientific Method in Paradise Regain’d; title: Stephen Voyce: “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”: Restoration Poetics under the Microscope; title: C.C. Barfoot: “The Eunuch’s Child”: William King’s Transactions with the Royal Society; title: John R.M. Ames: Re-ordering Creation: Materialism, Monism, and Scientific Iconoclasm in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature; title: Rebecca Knell: Re-evaluating Science and Romanticism: The Case of Erasmus Darwin’s The Loves of the Plants; title: Renata Schellenberg: Revising the Obvious: Goethe’s Opposition to Scientific Convention; title: 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; title: Malte Herwig: Ironic Science: Some Remarks on Humanism, Science, and Literature; title: Lucia Boldrini: Rattling the Cage of Meaning: Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the Two Cultures, and the Ethical Duty of the Writer; title: II: Bodily Science and Literature; title: Danielle Gurevitch: The Weasel, the Rose and Life after Death: Representations of Medieval Physiology in Marie de France’s Eliduc; title: William Henry Spates: Mythopoeia and Medicine: Decoding Fracastoro’s Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus; title: Monique W. Dull: “Little Irritations” in Mansfield Park; title: Elena Anastasaki: When Science Meets Fiction: Immortality in Balzac’s Le Centenaire ou les deux Béringheld; title: Galia Ofek: Thomas Hardy’s Morphology: Hair Formations in Scientific and Fictional Narratives; title: Amanda Mordavsky Caleb: Amoral Animality: H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau; title: Eric Miller: A Defect in Nature: The Figure of the Passenger Pigeon in Graeme Gibson and Other North American Writers; title: Lorna Fitzsimmons: Tertium Quid: Gertrude Stein and Psychical Research; title: Rosario Arias: Life After Man?: Posthumanity and Genetic Engineering in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go; title: Marie Aline Ferreira: “Toward a Science of Perfect Reproduction”?: Visions of Eugenics in Contemporary Fiction; title: May Chehab: Autobiography, Autobiology, Tautology: Marguerite Yourcenar’s Le Labyrinthe du Monde; title: Priya Venkatesan: The Narratives of Science: Literary Theory and Discovery in Molecular Biology; title: Evert Jan van Leeuwen: Theodore Roszak’s The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: A Countercultural Perspective on Alchemy, Gender and the Scientific Revolution; title: Kathleen Williams Renk: Debating Darwin: The Alchemy of A.S. Byatt and Pauline Melville; title: Carmen Lara Rallo: “She Thought Human Thoughts and Stone Thoughts”: Geology and the Mineral World in A.S. Byatt’s Fiction; title: Greta Olson: Transfers Between Science and Literature: Sexual Selection, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and T.C. Boyle’s Drop City; title: Ellen L. Arnold: Healing with Holograms: Science and Orality in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus; title: Volume Two; title: III: Physics Old and New in Literature; title: Eva-Sabine Zehelein: Staging Science with Albert Einstein; title: Candice Kent: “How Does the Mind Move to Einstein’s Physics?”: Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts; title: Anthony Enns: A Sum Over Histories: Faulkner’s Reconfiguration of Space-Time; title: Jocelyn Emerson: What’s Love Got to Do with It?: A.R. Ammons, Leslie Scalapino and Chaotic Poetics; title: Ginger Jones and Kevin Ells: Chaos and Complexity in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy; title: Burt Kimmelman: “Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself”: The New Physics, Charles Olson, and Avant-Garde Poetics; title: Peter Mudford: Contemporary Drama and the Uncertainty Principle; title: Michael H. Whitworth: “Within the Ray of Light”, and Without: The New Physics and Modernist Simultaneity; title: IV: The Politics of Science in Literature; title: Robert Druce: “The Iron Horses of the Steam”: Dickens, Thoreau, Zola and the Steam Locomotive; title: Elmar Schenkel: H.G. Wells and Speed; title: Robert S. Friedman: Surveying the Empirical Sublime: Thoreau, Literary and Scientific; title: Philip J. Kowalski: “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”: Lamarckian Domesticity in Catharine Beecher and Horace Bushnell; title: Marguérite Corporaal: “So Cold, so Lofty and so Distant”: Science, Religion and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American and Canadian Women’s Poetry; title: Jerry Hoeg: Literary Portrayals of Science as a Function of Socio-Environmental Relations in the Spanish-Speaking World; title: John Cusatis: “The Curious Desire of Knowing”: Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Science; title: Patricia McCloskey Engle: Reprising the Epistemological Function of Narrative: Intersections of Science and Mysticism in Ceremony and Slaughterhouse-Five; title: Derek C. Maus: Luddites of the Nuclear Age: Cold War Satire and the Fallacies of Quasi-Scientific Rhetoric; title: Derek J. Thiess: Lighting Cigars at the Heart of a Nightingale: Aestheticism and the Science Wars in L’Eve future; title: Sarah Dauncey: Forensic Anthropology and the Reconstruction of History in Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost; title: Naama Harel: Constructing the Nonhuman as Human: Scientific Fallacy, Literary Device; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index I: Selected Motifs, Topics, Themes; title: Index II: Authors, Texts and Publications, Selected Proper Names