The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 5/3/2018
EAN 9781107439030, ISBN10: 1107439035

Paperback, 350 pages, 22.8 x 18.3 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism, cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.

Introduction Steven Meyer
Part I. Glimpses of Present and Future
Literature and Science Studies
1. Science fiction to science studies Isabelle Stengers
Part II. Snapshots of The Past
Literature and Science
2. Shakespeare and modern science Mary Baine Campbell
3. Darwin and literature Devin Griffiths
4. William James, Henry James, and the impact of science Joan Richardson
5. Empson's Einstein
science and modern reading Kitt Price
Part III. In Theory
Literary Studies and Science Studies
6. Science studies and literary theory Hugh Crawford
7. From writing science to digital humanities Haun Saussy and Tim Lenoir
8. Science studies as cultural studies James J. Bono
9. Reading affect
literature and science after Klein and Tomkins Adam Frank
Part IV. In Practice
Literary Studies and Science
10. The global turn
Thoreau and the sixth extinction Wai Chee Dimock
11. Literary studies and cognitive science Alan Richardson
12. Modernism, technology, and the life sciences Tim Armstrong
13. The long history of cognitive practices
literacy, numeracy, aesthetics Reviel Netz
Futures past and present
literature and science in an age of Whitehead Steven Meyer.