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基本説明
Fourteen new essays on the interdisciplinary relations of literature, science, and psychoanalysis by a team of leading international scholars, inspired by Gillian Beer's path-breaking work on literature and science.
Full Description
The interactions between literature and science and between literature and psychoanalysis have been among the most thriving areas for interdisciplinary study in recent years. Work in these 'open fields' has taught us to recognize the interdependence of different cultures of knowledge and experience, revealing the multiple ways in which science, literature, and psychoanalysis have been mutually enabling and defining, as well as corrective and contestatory of each other. Inspired by Gillian Beer's path-breaking work on literature and science, this volume presents fourteen new essays by leading American and British writers. They focus on the evolutionary sciences in the nineteeth-century; the early years of psychoanalysis, from Freud to Ella Freeman Sharpe; and the modern development of the physical sciences. Drawing on recent debates within the history of science, psychoanalytic literary criticism, intellectual history, and gender studies, the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the formation of knowledge. Among its recurrent themes are: curiosity and epistemology; 'growth', 'maturity', and 'coming of age' as structuring metaphors (several essays focus especially on childhood); taxonomy; sleep and dreaming and elusive knowledge; the physiology of truth; and the gender politics of scientific theory and practice. The essays also reflect Beer's extensive influence as a literary critic, with close readings of works by Charlotte Brontë, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edith Ayrton Zangwill, Charlotte Haldane, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Karin Boye.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Darwin's 'Second Sun': Alexander von Humboldt and the Genesis of The Voyage of the Beagle ; 2. 'And If It Be a Pretty Woman All the Better' - Darwin and Sexual Selection ; 3. Ordering Creation, or Maybe Not ; 4. Chances Are: Henry Buckle, Thomas Hardy, and the Individual at Risk ; 5. The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature and Medicine ; 6. A Freudian Curiosity ; 7. Freud's Theory of Metaphor: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Nineteenth-Century Science and Figurative Language ; 8. On Not Being Able to Sleep ; 9. 'Brownie' Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams ; 10. On Not Knowing Why: Memorialising the Light Brigade ; 11. Sounds of the City: Virginia Woolf and Modern Noise ; 12. 'Chloe Liked Olivia': The Woman Scientist, Sex, and Suffrage ; 13. The Chemistry of Truth ; 14. Coming of Age ; Index
