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001			ocn900344297
003			OCoLC
005			20240726104922.0
008			150117s1992 kyu ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aEBLCP _beng _erda _cEBLCP _dNT
020			_a9780813149431 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPS169 _b.A447 1992
049			_aNTA
245	1	0	_aAmerican Literature and Science
260			_aLexington : _bThe University Press of Kentucky, _c(c)1992.
300			_a1 online resource (296 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
500			_aDescription based upon print version of record.
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Permeable Boundaries: Literature and Science in America; 2 ""This Brazen Serpent Is a Doctors Shop"": Edward Taylor's Medical Vision; 3 Benjamin Franklin: The Fusion of Science and Letters; 4 Thomas Jefferson; 5 An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe's Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics; 6 Fields of Investigation: Emerson and Natural History; 7 Thoreau and Science; 8 (Pseudo-) Scientific Humor; 9 Traveling in Time with Mark Twain; 10 Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; 11 Fields of Spacetime and the ""I"" in Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems
505	0	0	_a12 ""Unfurrowing the Mind's Plowshare"": Fiction in a Cybernetic Age13 Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence; Bibliography: American Literature and Science through 1989; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
520	0		_aLiterature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, ""were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor."" By mid-century they had diverged, but literature and science have continued to interact, conflict, and illuminate each other. In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of American writers with science and uncover science's conflicting meani.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and science _zUnited States.
650		0	_aScience in literature.
653		0	_aAmerican _aHistory and criticism
653		0	_aLiterature _aUnited States
653		0	_aScience in literature
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aScholnick, Robert J.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=937974&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hPS. _m1992 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a02 _bNT
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell