Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer

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Helen Small, Trudi Tate
Oxford University Press, 2003 - History - 255 pages
This book presents fourteen new essays by leading British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillian Beer, the collection pays homage to her major contribution to the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary sciences in nineteenth-century Britain, on psychoanalysis from Freud through to the late 1930s, and on the cultural contexts of science in the first half of the twentieth century.
 

Contents

Alexander von Humbolt and
13
And If It Be a Pretty Woman All the BetterDarwin
37
Ordering Creation or Maybe Not 52 122
52
Henry Buckle Thomas Hardy and
64
The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature
86
A Freudian Curiosity
102
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
118
On Not Being Able to Sleep
131
Memorializing the Light Brigade
160
Virginia Woolf and Modern Noise
181
The Woman Scientist Sex and Suffrage
195
The Chemistry of Truth and the Literature of Dystopia
212
Coming of Age
233
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
243
INDEX
249
Copyright

Brownie Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams
145

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