From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western LiteratureJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 417 páginas They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. |
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... century . Thus , ultimately , Swift's purpose , like Pope's , is to redirect mankind from an excessive and optimistic reliance on rationalism , from abstract schemes that emanate from pride of the intellect , and to reaffirm the ...
... century . Thus , ultimately , Swift's purpose , like Pope's , is to redirect mankind from an excessive and optimistic reliance on rationalism , from abstract schemes that emanate from pride of the intellect , and to reaffirm the ...
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... Century England , " Osiris 4 [ 1938 ] , 360-632 ) . Michael Hunter , on the other hand , argues that Puritanism " was not specially favour- able to natural philosophy . One of the few specifically Puritan societies in the seven- teenth ...
... Century England , " Osiris 4 [ 1938 ] , 360-632 ) . Michael Hunter , on the other hand , argues that Puritanism " was not specially favour- able to natural philosophy . One of the few specifically Puritan societies in the seven- teenth ...
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... century was a poor return for the hopes Sprat had entertained when he wrote his manifesto ” ( “ Literature and Science , " in The Pelican Guide to English Literature , vol . 4 , ed . Boris Ford [ Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1973 ] , 196 ) ...
... century was a poor return for the hopes Sprat had entertained when he wrote his manifesto ” ( “ Literature and Science , " in The Pelican Guide to English Literature , vol . 4 , ed . Boris Ford [ Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1973 ] , 196 ) ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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