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Alice Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and Chair of the British Society for Literature and Science.
Œuvres de Alice Jenkins
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) (2006) 8 exemplaires
Space and the 'March of Mind': Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850 (2007) 8 exemplaires
Law for the rich 2 exemplaires
Italian Paleo Recipes: Homemade Italian Recipes 1 exemplaire
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Outspoken Women: An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870-1969 (2005) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
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Space and the 'March of Mind': Literature and the… par Alice Jenkins
Not a bad book for what it was, but it was less about literature and science than the title implies, and more about just science. The strongest part, I felt, was the reading of Middlemarch, suggesting that Middlemarch's famous "web" could be not (or not just) the web of life, but the field of force, and that field theory makes us skeptical about limits and boundaries-- as does the realist novel (pp. 204-07). The remonstration, though, that the field needs to pay more attention to physical science (life and earth sciences having gotten all the literature and science hype) is worth heeding.… (plus d'informations)
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