Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, and anxiety shape scientific persons, practices, and products. To...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the neural unconscious and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, wit...Lasīt vairāk
Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freyta...Lasīt vairāk
The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions. I...Lasīt vairāk
Widely seen as evolutions founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwins greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of...Lasīt vairāk
Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freyta...Lasīt vairāk
Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book PrizeThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust. Genomic...Lasīt vairāk
Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century t...Lasīt vairāk
The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions. I...Lasīt vairāk
Widely seen as evolutions founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwins greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the p...Lasīt vairāk
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Wellcome Trust.The Diseased Brain and the Failing Min...Lasīt vairāk
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Winner of the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book prize.In this important interdisciplinary study,...Lasīt vairāk
How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technol...Lasīt vairāk
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust. Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandi...Lasīt vairāk
Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary practice. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the pr...Lasīt vairāk
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimers disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examin...Lasīt vairāk
How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technol...Lasīt vairāk
In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores how the contemporary novel has drawn upon, and intervened in, debates about race in late 20th and 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers including Zad...Lasīt vairāk
