| The Articulation of Science in the Neo-Victorian Novel: A Poetics (and Two Case Studies) Contributor(s): Bormann, Daniel Candel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820459313 ISBN-13: 9780820459318 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| Dewey: 823.910 |
| LCCN: 2002040679 |
| Series: European University Studies: Series XIV |
| Physical Information: 335 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present study offers a poetics of science in the contemporary historical, and more specifically, neo-Victorian novel. Its starting point is both the profound (dis)similarity between science and history, and Ansgar N] unning's path-breaking systematisation of the historical novel. The poetics itself is based on a rigorous development and application of four hypotheeses. These hypotheses are a direct result of the interdisciplinary nature of a study with at least three, if not four, epistemological concerns, for this is a study of - science in a - literary context which deals with - history, specifically history of the - Victorian- period. Each of the four terms forms the basis for one of the hypotheses. The poetics is tested on two novels which have proved to be land-marks in neo-Victorian fiction: Graham Swift's Waterland (1983) and A. S. Byatt's Possession (1990). Contents: Science - History - Nature - Neo-Victorian - 20th-century novel - Postmodern English fiction - Science and literature - Ecocriticism - Poetics of science in the neo-Victorian novel - Graham Swift: Waterland - A. S. Byatt: Possession - Ansgar Nunning." |
