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050 00 $aPR468.S34$bB44 1995
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100 1 $aBeer, Gillian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83068773
245 10 $aOpen fields :$bscience in cultural encounter /$cGillian Beer.
260 $aNew York ;$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9512
300 $aviii, 341 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$tFour Bodies on the Beagle: Touch, Sight, and Writing in a Darwin Letter --$g2.$tCan the Native Return? --$g3.$tTravelling the Other Way: Travel Narratives and Truth Claims --$g4.$tSpeaking for the Others: Relativism and Authority in Victorian Anthropological Writing --$g5.$tDarwin and the Growth of Language Theory --$g6.$tForging the Missing Link: Interdisciplinary Stories --$g7.$tProblems of Description in the Language of Discovery --$g8.$tTranslation or Transformation? The Relation of Literature and Science --$g9.$tParable, Professionalization, and Literary Allusion in Victorian Scientific Writing --$g10.$t'The Death of the Sun': Victorian Solar Physics and Solar Theory --$g11.$tHelmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Leaps of the Prepared Imagination --$g12.$tThe Reader's Wager: Lots, Sorts, and Futures --$g13.$tWave Theory and the Rise of Literary Modernism --$g14.$tSquare Rounds and Other Awkward Fits: Chemistry as Theatre.
520 $aScience always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire.
520 8 $aA substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking, from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism, and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102754
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107017
650 0 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112207
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625
600 10 $aDarwin, Charles,$d1809-1882$xInfluence.
650 0 $aScience in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118667
852 00 $bglx$hPR468.S34$iB44 1996