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Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow (2 Vols.)
Literatureâs Refraction of Science
Series: - DQR Studies in Literature Online, Volume: 47
- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 47
Keatsâ misgivings about science unweaving the rainbow and robbing Nature of its mystery were shared by many of contemporaries, and successive generations have been compelled to ask how this rapidly escalating knowledge of the universe would affect their understanding of themselves and the world they lived in. This is the concern of most of the essays in these two volumes: how are we to live with science and the issues scientific discoveries and propositions raise? And how has this relationship with science been explored and expressed in literary works? Yet even before science became such a challenge to the imagination, an awareness of how people interact with the natural world â in terms of sickness and health, medicine, mathematics â had already been a literary subject, also reflected in a number of articles in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literatureâs Refraction of Science. In the twentieth century doubt became a crucial component of science as well as literature, and the relativism and uncertainty of quantum physics have proved fruitful to a wide range of dramatist, poets and novelists as many articles indicate. A systematic desire for objective criteria, verifiability, and conceptual frameworks has also increased the importance of methodology and of criticism: the many approaches adopted by the contributors to these volumes further point to the refraction of science in literature.
Volume One
C.C. Barfoot & V. Tinkler-Villani: Introduction
I: THE CONFLICT OF SCIENCE IN LITERATURE
T.H.J. Pettigrew: âMillions Infiniteâ
H. Doss: Miltonâs Satan
S. Voyce: âThereâs Plenty of Room at the Bottomâ
C.C. Barfoot: âThe Eunuchâs Childâ
J.R.M. Ames: Re-ordering Creation
R. Knell: Re-evaluating Science and Romanticism
R. Schellenberg: Revising the Obvious
J.D. Ballam: âScience as the Base of Wondersâ
M. Herwig: Ironic Science
L. Boldrini: Rattling the Cage of Meaning
II: BODILY SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
D. Gurevitch: The Weasel, the Rose and Life after Death
W.H. Spates: Mythopoeia and Medicine
M.W. Dull: âLittle Irritationsâ in Mansfield Park
E. Anastasaki: When Science Meets Fiction
G. Ofek: Thomas Hardyâs Morphology
A. Mordavsky Caleb: Amoral Animality
E. Miller: A Defect in Nature
L. Fitzsimmons: Tertium Quid: Gertrude Stein and Psychical Research
R. Arias: Life After Man?
M.A. Ferreira: âToward a Science of Perfect Reproductionâ?
M. Chehab: Autobiography, Autobiology, Tautology
P. Venkatesan: The Narratives of Science
E.J. van Leeuwen: Theodore Roszakâs The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
K. Williams Renk: Debating Darwin
C. Lara Rallo: âShe Thought Human Thoughts and Stone Thoughtsâ
G. Olson: Transfers Between Science and Literature
E.L. Arnold: Healing with Holograms
Volume Two
III: PHYSICS OLD AND NEW IN LITERATURE
E.-S. Zehelein: Staging Science with Albert Einstein
C. Kent: âHow Does the Mind Move to Einsteinâs Physics?â
A. Enns: A Sum Over Histories
J. Emerson: Whatâs Love Got to Do with It?
G. Jones & K. Ells: Chaos and Complexity in Paul Austerâs New York Trilogy
B. Kimmelman: âEqual, That Is, to the Real Itselfâ
P. Mudford: Contemporary Drama and the Uncertainty Principle
M.H. Whitworth: âWithin the Ray of Lightâ, and Without
IV: THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE IN LITERATURE
R. Druce: âThe Iron Horses of the Steamâ
E. Schenkel: H.G. Wells and Speed
R.S. Friedman: Surveying the Empirical Sublime
P.J. Kowalski: âFearfully and Wonderfully Madeâ
M. Corporaal: âSo Cold, so Lofty and so Distantâ
J. Hoeg: Literary Portrayals of Science as a Function of Socio-Environmental Relations in the Spanish-Speaking World
J. Cusatis: âThe Curious Desire of Knowingâ
P. McCloskey Engle: Reprising the Epistemological Function of Narrative
D.C. Maus: Luddites of the Nuclear Age
D.J. Thiess: Lighting Cigars at the Heart of a Nightingale
S. Dauncey: Forensic Anthropology and the Reconstruction of History in Ondaatjeâs Anilâs Ghost
N. Harel: Constructing the Nonhuman as Human
Notes on Contributors
Index I
Index II
C.C. Barfoot & V. Tinkler-Villani: Introduction
I: THE CONFLICT OF SCIENCE IN LITERATURE
T.H.J. Pettigrew: âMillions Infiniteâ
H. Doss: Miltonâs Satan
S. Voyce: âThereâs Plenty of Room at the Bottomâ
C.C. Barfoot: âThe Eunuchâs Childâ
J.R.M. Ames: Re-ordering Creation
R. Knell: Re-evaluating Science and Romanticism
R. Schellenberg: Revising the Obvious
J.D. Ballam: âScience as the Base of Wondersâ
M. Herwig: Ironic Science
L. Boldrini: Rattling the Cage of Meaning
II: BODILY SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
D. Gurevitch: The Weasel, the Rose and Life after Death
W.H. Spates: Mythopoeia and Medicine
M.W. Dull: âLittle Irritationsâ in Mansfield Park
E. Anastasaki: When Science Meets Fiction
G. Ofek: Thomas Hardyâs Morphology
A. Mordavsky Caleb: Amoral Animality
E. Miller: A Defect in Nature
L. Fitzsimmons: Tertium Quid: Gertrude Stein and Psychical Research
R. Arias: Life After Man?
M.A. Ferreira: âToward a Science of Perfect Reproductionâ?
M. Chehab: Autobiography, Autobiology, Tautology
P. Venkatesan: The Narratives of Science
E.J. van Leeuwen: Theodore Roszakâs The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
K. Williams Renk: Debating Darwin
C. Lara Rallo: âShe Thought Human Thoughts and Stone Thoughtsâ
G. Olson: Transfers Between Science and Literature
E.L. Arnold: Healing with Holograms
Volume Two
III: PHYSICS OLD AND NEW IN LITERATURE
E.-S. Zehelein: Staging Science with Albert Einstein
C. Kent: âHow Does the Mind Move to Einsteinâs Physics?â
A. Enns: A Sum Over Histories
J. Emerson: Whatâs Love Got to Do with It?
G. Jones & K. Ells: Chaos and Complexity in Paul Austerâs New York Trilogy
B. Kimmelman: âEqual, That Is, to the Real Itselfâ
P. Mudford: Contemporary Drama and the Uncertainty Principle
M.H. Whitworth: âWithin the Ray of Lightâ, and Without
IV: THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE IN LITERATURE
R. Druce: âThe Iron Horses of the Steamâ
E. Schenkel: H.G. Wells and Speed
R.S. Friedman: Surveying the Empirical Sublime
P.J. Kowalski: âFearfully and Wonderfully Madeâ
M. Corporaal: âSo Cold, so Lofty and so Distantâ
J. Hoeg: Literary Portrayals of Science as a Function of Socio-Environmental Relations in the Spanish-Speaking World
J. Cusatis: âThe Curious Desire of Knowingâ
P. McCloskey Engle: Reprising the Epistemological Function of Narrative
D.C. Maus: Luddites of the Nuclear Age
D.J. Thiess: Lighting Cigars at the Heart of a Nightingale
S. Dauncey: Forensic Anthropology and the Reconstruction of History in Ondaatjeâs Anilâs Ghost
N. Harel: Constructing the Nonhuman as Human
Notes on Contributors
Index I
Index II