Title: Fact and Fiction
Description: "Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction?s twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin?s poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot?s Daniel Deronda, and Goethe?s Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two."
Subjects: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, German literature, history and criticism, 18th century, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Literature and science, Science in literature, Knowledge, theory of, German literature, History and criticism, English literature, History, Naturwissenschaften, Literatur, Englisch, Deutsch, Littérature allemande, Histoire et critique, Littérature anglaise, Littérature et sciences, Histoire, Sciences dans la littérature, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature