Format:
1 online resource (367 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781442664135
Content:
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain - Thoughts on a Contentious Relationship -- Part I - Reading: Electricity, Medicine -- 1 Facts Are What One Makes of Them: Constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and Early German Romanticism -- 2 The Competing Structures of Signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Between 18th-Century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics -- Part II - Imagining: Botany, Chemistry, Thermodynamics -- 3 "She comes! - the GODDESS!": Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden -- 4 Elective Affinities / Wahlverwandtschaften: The Career of a Metaphor -- 5 Physics Disarmed: Probabilistic Knowledge in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot -- Part III - Sensing: Anthropology, Psychology, Aesthetics -- 6 Herder's Unsettling of the Distinction between Fact and Fiction -- 7 Fictional Feedback: Empirical Souls and Self-Deception in the Magazine for Empirical Psychology and Beyond -- 8 Fictional Feelings: Psychological Aesthetics and the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure -- Part IV - Relating: Biology -- 9 Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion -- 10 Kin Selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the Fate of Characters in Forster's The Longest Journey -- Part V - Displaying: Scientific Collections -- 11 Anatomy Collections in and of the Mind: Science, the Body, and Language in the Writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche -- 12 Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-century German Exhibition Culture -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442645981
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442645981
Language:
English
