Biological discourses : the language of science and literature around 1900 / Robert Craig and Ina Linge (eds).

• Introduction: Can literature and science share a language? / Robert Craig and Ina Linge -- Legacies of evolution / introduced by Staffan Müller-Wille. Elena Borelli: "The beast within: Darwinism and desire in the Italian fin de siècle" -- Anahita Rouyan: "Resisting excelsior biology: H.G. Wells's The time machine and late Victorian (mis)representations of Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution" -- Pauline Moret-Jankus: Jules Soury and Paul Bourget, or the influence of Haeckelian biology on fin-de-siècle French literature -- Godela Weiss-Sussex: "The monist novel as site of female agency:Grete Meisel-Hess's The intellectuals (1911)" -- Bill Dodd: "Darwin's imperialist canvas: Dolf Sternberger's panorama or views of/from the nineteenth century (1938) as cultural history in the shadow of national socialism" -- Constructions of desire / introduced by Heike Bauer. Michael Eggers: "Cryptogamic kissing: Adalbert Stifter's novella The kiss of sentze (1866) and The reproduction of mosses" -- Charlotte Woodford: "Biology, desire and a longing for heimat in Lou Andreas-Salomé's Novel das haus and her essay "Gedanken über das Liebesproblem" -- Linda Leskau: "Botanical perversions: on the depathologisation of perversions in texts by Alfred Döblin and Hanns Heinz Ewers" -- Cyd Sturgess: "(Re- )constructing the boundaries of desire: sexual inversion and Sapphic self-fashioning in Josine Reuling's Terug naar het eiland (1937)" -- Projections of otherness / introduced by David Midgley. Aisha Nazeer: "Scientific and Gothic constructions of the degenerate, racial "other": reading the abject in Marryat's The blood of the vampire and Haggard's She" -- Michael Wainwright: "Narratives of helminthology: Thomas Spencer Cobbold, Bram Stoker, and The lair of the white worm -- David Midgley: "A journey into the interior: the self as other in Robert Müller's novel Tropen" -- The poet, the senses, and the sense of a world / introduced by David Midgley. Sarah Cain: "Attention and efficiency: the experimental psychology of modernism in Harvard" -- David Wachter: "Amoeba, dragonfly, gazelle: animal poetics around 1908 (Möbius Uexküll Rilke)" -- Robert Craig: "The city as creature: reconfiguring the creaturely self in Alfred Föblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Ämnesord

Litteratur och vetenskap  (sao)

Europeisk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Science in literature.  (LCSH)

European literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

European literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and science  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

European literature. 

Literature and science. 

Science in literature. 

Literature and science  (LCSH)

Europa 

Europe. 

1800-talet  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

1800-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Criticism, interpretation, etc. 

Klassifikation

PN55 (LCC)

809/.9336 (DDC)