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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... apparent in New Atlantis , and it is significant that this text has been selected , more or less in isolation , as a model for the scientific utopia that not only appealed to Bacon's century but was to reemerge in almost the same terms ...
... apparent in New Atlantis , and it is significant that this text has been selected , more or less in isolation , as a model for the scientific utopia that not only appealed to Bacon's century but was to reemerge in almost the same terms ...
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... apparent diversity . Swithin is attempting to do for the universe beyond the solar system what Kepler had done for the solar system , and Newton for physics , namely , to formulate the laws of its behavior . Yet , unlike his ...
... apparent diversity . Swithin is attempting to do for the universe beyond the solar system what Kepler had done for the solar system , and Newton for physics , namely , to formulate the laws of its behavior . Yet , unlike his ...
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... apparent from this survey that the realistic novelists of the late nineteenth century were forced to develop new images of scientists and new ways of presenting them . Most of these involved struggle - the struggle to survive ...
... apparent from this survey that the realistic novelists of the late nineteenth century were forced to develop new images of scientists and new ways of presenting them . Most of these involved struggle - the struggle to survive ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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