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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... Romantic writers ' attack on this entrenched position of science was more radical than that of their predecessors . The earlier charge that scientists were attempting to transcend human limitations was far from inimical to the Romantics ...
... Romantic writers ' attack on this entrenched position of science was more radical than that of their predecessors . The earlier charge that scientists were attempting to transcend human limitations was far from inimical to the Romantics ...
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... Romantic belief that the whole of Nature partook of sensi- tivity to some degree . Similarly , Ritter's best - known scientific work , his discovery of ultraviolet rays in the spectrum of the sun , was a direct result of his theory of ...
... Romantic belief that the whole of Nature partook of sensi- tivity to some degree . Similarly , Ritter's best - known scientific work , his discovery of ultraviolet rays in the spectrum of the sun , was a direct result of his theory of ...
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... Romantic writers ' reaction against rationalism and reductionism and their development of an alternative explanation of the natural world spanned nearly a century ; therefore their emphasis inevitably varied at different times and ...
... Romantic writers ' reaction against rationalism and reductionism and their development of an alternative explanation of the natural world spanned nearly a century ; therefore their emphasis inevitably varied at different times and ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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