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The growing field of literature and science is for the first time given a fully theorized overview. Using case studies from a three hundred year history, Sleigh focuses on literary form and argues that novels did not just...
The growing field of literature and science is for the first time given a fully theorized overview. Using case studies from a three hundred year history, Sleigh focuses on literary form and argues that novels did not just reflect or inform areas of science, but were part of a broader, ongoing cultural negotiation about how to read things.
The first fully theorized overview of this growing field Makes an original argument about the centrality of literary form Written with the needs of students in mind, it introduces a variety of genres, draws on classic and unexpected case studies and includes suggestions for further reading and research
Preface Introduction Empiricism and the Novel Epistolarity and the Democratic Ideal Idealism and the Inhuman Realism in Literature and the Laboratory Scientist, Moral Realism and the New World Order Subjects of Science Says Who? Science and Public Understanding.
CHARLOTTE SLEIGH is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Kent, UK. Her publications include Ant and Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology.
CHARLOTTE SLEIGH is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Kent, UK. Her publications include Ant and Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology.
