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 |237 pages

Literatures and Sciences

chapter |13 pages

AI and ALife

chapter |12 pages

Alchemy

chapter |12 pages

Biology

chapter |12 pages

Chemistry

chapter |14 pages

Climate Science

chapter |12 pages

Cognitive Science

chapter |11 pages

Cybernetics

chapter |12 pages

Ecology

chapter |12 pages

Evolution

chapter |11 pages

Genetics

chapter |10 pages

Geology

chapter |12 pages

Mathematics

chapter |12 pages

Medicine

chapter |11 pages

Nanotechnology

chapter |11 pages

Physics

chapter |12 pages

Systems Theory

chapter |12 pages

Thermodynamics

part |168 pages

Disciplinary and Theoretical Approaches

part |122 pages

Periods and Cultures

chapter |14 pages

Greece and Rome

chapter |11 pages

Scientific “Revolution” I

Copernicus to Boyle

chapter |13 pages

Scientific “Revolution” II

Newton to Laplace

chapter |12 pages

Romanticism

chapter |12 pages

Industrialism

chapter |11 pages

Russia

chapter |11 pages

Japan

chapter |10 pages

Modernism