Fact and fiction
| Titel: | Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain / edited by Christine Lehleiter |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 354 Seiten) : Illustrations |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 1442645989 ; 9781442645981 ; 9781442664135 ; 1442664134 ; 9781487511401 ; 148751140X ; 9781442645981 ; 1442645989 ; 9781442645981 |
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- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction. Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain - Thoughts on a Contentious Relationship
- p. 1
- Part I
- Reading: Electricity, Medicine
- 1
- Facts Are What One Makes of Them: Constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and Early German Romanticism
- p. 33
- 2
- The Competing Structures of Signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Between 18th-Century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics
- p. 50
- Part II
- Imagining: Botany, Chemistry, Thermodynamics
- 3
- "She comes! - the GODDESS!": Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden
- p. 73
- 4
- Elective Affinities / Wahlverwandtschaften: The Career of a Metaphor
- p. 97
- 5
- Physics Disarmed: Probabilistic Knowledge in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot
- p. 130
- Part III
- Sensing: Anthropology, Psychology, Aesthetics
- 6
- Herder's Unsettling of the Distinction between Fact and Fiction
- p. 155
- 7
- Fictional Feedback: Empirical Souls and Self-Deception in the Magazine for Empirical Psychology and Beyond
- p. 175
- 8
- Fictional Feelings: Psychological Aesthetics and the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure
- p. 199
- Part IV
- Relating: Biology
- 9
- Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion
- p. 221
- 10
- Kin Selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the Fate of Characters in Forster's The Longest Journey
- p. 247
- Part V
- Displaying: Scientific Collections
- 11
- Anatomy Collections in and of the Mind: Science, the Body, and Language in the Writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche
- p. 275
- 12
- Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-century German Exhibition Culture
- p. 298
- Contributors
- p. 333
- Index
- p. 337
