On literature and science

Essays, reflections, provocations


Philip Coleman, editor

Hardback €54.00
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ISBN: 978-1-84682-071-7
January 2007. 256pp; ills.

Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English
Helen Conrad-O’Briain

Horology and literature in Renaissance England
John Scattergood
 
Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in 16th-century literature
Amanda Piesse 

Mental health and Hamlet
Andrew J. Power

The perils of visiting England in 1850
Kate Hebblethwaite

Edgar Allan Poe and the orang-utan
Stephen Matterson

H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster
Darryl Jones

Psychiatry, surrealism and the science of the irrational
Benjamin Keatinge 

Bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice
Ross Skelton

Scientific research in recent American fiction
Philip Coleman

Can poetry be scientific?
Peter Middleton 

Science and poetry
Iggy McGovern

Creative writings by: Randolph Healy, Meredith Quartermain, Harry Clifton, Allen Fisher, Maurice Scully, Dylan Harris, Kit Fryatt.