Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures.
Fact and Fiction's twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to...
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eightee...
At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a -tabula rasa- to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, however, the individual had become defined as determined by heredity already from birth. Examining novels by Goethe, Jean Paul, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and anatomical collections, Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood....
At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a -tabula rasa- to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life. By the middle...
