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Contents Series Editor's Preface 000 Preface 000 1 Medieval Cosmology and European Literature: Dante and Chaucer Aristotelian Cosmology Dante and the Divine Comedy Chaucer Chaucer and Astrology The Humours Chaucer's Doctor of Physic Alchemy Biographies: Chaucer, Dante 2 Science and literature in the Elizabethan Renaissance Natural Philosophy Elizabethan Commonplaces The Great Chain of Being Astrology Analogical Thinking and the Correspondences Hierarchy and Degree The Elements The Age of the World Medicine Music of the Spheres Satire Breaking Boundaries Marlowe's Faustus King Lear Biographies: Marlowe, Jonson 3 Science and Literature in Seventeenth Century England Affecting the Metaphysical The World's Decay The Redemption of Natural Philosophy The Royal Society Satire and the Virtuosi Science and the Language of Literature Milton Biographies: Donne, Bacon 4 Science and literature 1680-1790 Of Newton, to the Muses Dear Pope and The Essay on Man Jonathan Swift Nature Poems; scientific and moral The Didactic Poem Biographies: Newton, Swift 5 The Touch of Cold Philosophy: The Response to Science in Romantic Literature 1790-1840 Unweaving the rainbow The Romantic revolution-context and characteristics Romantic Epistemologies Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (1798) Kant's Revolution Wordsworth and Newton Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Biographies: Mary Shelley, Wordsworth, Davy 6 Nineteenth Century American Literature and Science: problems of analogy (BB) The analogical method Changes in nineteenth-century science American Nature and Spirituality Moby-Dick and classification systems Moby-Dick: analogy, anatomy and autopsy Nature and the Transcendentalists Science and Religion: the way to Hell Science, non-science and nonsense: the case of Edgar Allan Poe Conclusion Biographies: Melville, Thoreau 7 Those Dreadful Hammers: geology and evolution in 19th century literature (JHC) Geology comes of age Lamarck and Chambers Tennyson Darwin and The Origin of Species Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Man's place in nature Hardy and sexual selection Hardy and August Weismann Epilogue: Evolutionary epistemology. Biographies: Hardy, Darwin 8 Darwin's Gothic: Science and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century (BB) Darwin and "Progress" Herbert Spencer and "Social Darwinism" The Time Machine The Time Machine and evolution The Time Machine and race Theories of degeneration Cesare Lombroso's "Criminal Man" Atavism and Dracula Degeneration and Sherlock Holmes Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles Reversion and "The Creeping Man" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Conclusion Biographies: Wells, Conan Doyle 9 Themes in Science Fiction (BB) The fantastic journey Evolution and humanity Science fiction and Time The Robots Dystopia: the machine state Biographies: Asimov, Heisenberg 10 Science and Literature in the Twentieth century: From Entropy to Chaos (BB) Thermodynamics and Entropy Entropy and postwar literature Entropy and information Cybernetics and cyborgs Cyberpunk, bifurcation points and chaos theory Back to the Future: The Difference Engine Biographies: Maxwell, Gibson 11 The Two Cultures Debates Two Cultures: an anatomy of a cultural divide The Battle of the Books The Romantic Revolution and varieties of truth The Huxley-Arnold debate C.P. Snow and Two Cultures Biographies: Arnold, Huxley, Snow 12 Cultural Wars and Imperial Ambitions Realism and Social Constructivism Human nature and human knowledge: the allure of cultural determinism The Counterattack Sokal's modest experiment Can Literature be explored scientifically? E O Wilson and Consilence The Third Culture and Popular Science Writing The Third Culture Popular culture and the literature of science Biographies: E. O. Wilson, Epilogue: A Time for Cultural Exchange Appendix A: Spherical Astronomy and "Saving the Appearances" Chronology of Significant Events Bibliographic Essay Glossary Bibliography Index About the Editors
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Science and literature.