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Forbidden knowledge : from Prometheus to pornography / Roger Shattuck. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: spaeng Series: A harvest bookPublication details: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, (c)1997.Edition: first Harvest editionDescription: xiii, 369 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 843060281X
  • 9780156005517
  • 9788430602810
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN56
  • PN56.S533.F673 1997
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Contents:
The far side of curiosity -- Milton in the garden of Eden -- Faust and Frankenstein -- The pleasures of abstinence: mme de lafayette and Emily Dickinson -- Guilt, justice, and empathy in Melville and Camus -- Taking stock -- 2: Case histories -- Knowledge exploding: science and technology -- The divine marquis -- The sphinx and the unicorn.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PN56.K64.S43 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001649488

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

1: Literary narratives -- The far side of curiosity -- Milton in the garden of Eden -- Faust and Frankenstein -- The pleasures of abstinence: mme de lafayette and Emily Dickinson -- Guilt, justice, and empathy in Melville and Camus -- Taking stock -- 2: Case histories -- Knowledge exploding: science and technology -- The divine marquis -- The sphinx and the unicorn.

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