ABSTRACT

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume:

  • links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics
  • surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics
  • traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism.

Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers.

With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.

part |3 pages

PART I Literatures and sciences

chapter 1|13 pages

AI AND ALIFE

ByJOHN JOHNSTON

chapter 2|12 pages

ALCHEMY

ByMARK S. MORRISSON

chapter 3|12 pages

BIOLOGY

BySABINE SIELKE

chapter 4|10 pages

CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

ByIRA LIVINGSTON

chapter 5|12 pages

CHEMISTRY

ByJAY LABINGER

chapter 6|14 pages

CLIMATE SCIENCE

ByROBERT MARKLEY

chapter 7|12 pages

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

ByJOSEPH TABBI

chapter 8|11 pages

CYBERNETICS

BySØREN BRIER

chapter 9|12 pages

ECOLOGY

BySTACY ALAIMO

chapter 10|12 pages

EVOLUTION

ByDAVID AMIGONI

chapter 11|11 pages

GENETICS

ByJUDITH ROOF

chapter 12|10 pages

GEOLOGY

BySTEPHEN A. NORWICK

chapter 13|12 pages

Information theory PHILIPP SCHWEIGHAUSER

chapter 14|12 pages

MATHEMATICS

ByBRIAN ROTMAN

chapter 15|12 pages

MEDICINE

ByGEORGE ROUSSEAU

chapter 16|11 pages

NANOTECHNOLOGY

ByCOLIN MILBURN

chapter 17|11 pages

PHYSICS

ByDIRK VANDERBEKE

chapter 18|11 pages

PSYCHOANALYSIS

ByARKADY PLOTNITSKY

chapter 19|12 pages

SYSTEMS THEORY

ByBRUCE CLARKE

chapter 20|13 pages

THERMODYNAMICS

ByJOHN BRUNI

part |3 pages

PART II Disciplinary and theoretical approaches

chapter 21|11 pages

AGRICULTURAL STUDIES

BySUSAN M. SQUIER

chapter 22|11 pages

ANIMAL STUDIES

ByRICHARD NASH

chapter 23|12 pages

ART CONNECTIONS

ByROBERT PEPPERELL

chapter 24|11 pages

CULTURAL SCIENCE STUDIES

ByMAUREEN MCNEIL

chapter 25|11 pages

DECONSTRUCTION

ByVICKI KIRBY

chapter 26|14 pages

E-LITERATURE

ByJOSEPH TABBI

chapter 27|11 pages

FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES

BySUSAN M. SQUIER, MELISSA M. LITTLEFIELD

chapter 28|12 pages

GAME STUDIES

ByGORDON CALLEJA, IVAN CALLUS

chapter 29|14 pages

History of science HENNING SCHMIDGEN

chapter 30|13 pages

MEDIA STUDIES

ByMARK B.N. HANSEN

chapter 31|12 pages

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

ByALFRED NORDMANN

chapter 32|11 pages

POSTHUMANISM

ByNEIL BADMINGTON

chapter 33|11 pages

Science fiction

ByLISA YASZEK

chapter 34|11 pages

SEMIOTICS

ByPAUL COBLEY

part |2 pages

PART III Periods and cultures

chapter 35|14 pages

GREECE AND ROME

ByEMMA GEE

chapter 36|15 pages

MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE

ByARIELLE SAIBER

chapter 37|11 pages

Scientific “revolution” I: Copernicus to Boyle

ByALVIN SNIDER

chapter 38|13 pages

Scientific “revolution” II: Newton to Laplace

ByLUCINDA COLE

chapter 39|12 pages

Romanticism NOAH HERINGMAN

chapter 40|12 pages

INDUSTRIALISM

ByVIRGINIA RICHTER

chapter 41|11 pages

RUSSIA

ByKENNETH J. KNOESPEL

chapter 42|11 pages

JAPAN

ByTHOMAS LAMARRE

chapter 43|10 pages

MODERNISM

ByT. HUGH CRAWFORD

chapter 44|11 pages

POSTMODERNISM

BySTEFAN HERBRECHTER