Category: Modern and Contemporary
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Stiles, Anne (ed), Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920
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Deric Corlew
Anne Stiles (ed.), Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 240 pp. £48 hb. ISBN 978-0230520943. In the late nineteenth century, the term “neurology” referred not only to the medical study of the nervous system, but also encompassed a broad range of fields from neuroscience to clinical psychology. This collection of eight essays is thus…
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Crawford, Robert (ed), Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 234 + xvi pp. £19.99 hb. ISBN 978-0-19-925812-3. This is primarily a book about contemporary poetry, and what poetry can do now, as seen through its engagement with aspects of contemporary science. It is only fleetingly a book about ‘science and poetry’, where the…
