Literature and Science: An Introductory Bibliography

Amrine, Frederick, ed. Literature and Science As Modes of Expression. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

Antonello, Pierpaolo and Simon A. Gilson, eds. Science and Literature in Italian Culture from Dante to Calvino. Oxford: Legenda, 2004.

Arends, Bergit and Davina Thackara, eds. Experiment: Conversations in Art and Science. London: Wellcome Trust, 2003.

Argyros, Alexander. A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution and Chaos. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.

Ashman, Keith. After the Science Wars. Routledge, 2001

Barash, David P. Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature. New York: Delacorte P, 2005.

Beer, Gillian. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

---. Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

---. "Science and Literature." Companion to the History of Modern Science. Ed. R. C. Alby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie and M. J. S. Hodge. London: Routledge, 1990.

Browner, Stephanie P. Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004.

Bruce, Donald and Anthony Purdy, eds. Literature and Science. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.

Cadden, John J. and Patrick R. Brostowin, eds. Science and Literature: A Reader. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1964. 45-60.

Carey, John, ed. The Faber Book of Science. London: Faber and Faber, 1995.

Carpenter, Charles A. Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999.

Carroll, Joseph. Evolution and Literary Theory. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1995.

---. Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature. NY: Routledge, 2004.

Carter, Steven. Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science. Lanham, MD: International Scholars, 1999.

Cartwright, John H. and Brian Baker. Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.

Chapple, J. A. V. Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. London: Macmillan, 1986.

Christie, John and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature, 1700-1900. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP, 1989.

Clark, Harry Hayden. "The Influence of Science on American Literary Criticism, 1860-1910, Including the Vogue of Taine." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 44 (1956): 109-164.

Cooke, Brett and Frederick Turner, eds. Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts. Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999.

Cosslett, T. The Scientific Movement in Victorian Literature. Brighton: Harvester P, 1982.

Crawford, Robert. Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Dale, Peter Allen. In Pursuit of a Scientific Culture: Science, Art, and Society in the Victorian Age. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.

Dudley, Fred A., et al. The Relations of Literature and Science, a Selected Bibliography 1930-1949. Pullman, Washington, 1949.

Edwards, David. Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation. Harvard UP, 2008.

Frayling, Christopher. Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion, 2005.

Goodall, Jane R. Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order. London: Routledge, 2002.

Goodheart, Eugen. Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2007.

Goodman, Allegra. Intuition: A Novel. New York: Dial P, 2006.

Gordon, Craig. Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Gossin, Pamela, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

Gottschall, Jonathan. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Gottschall, Jonathan and David Sloan Wilson, eds. The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2005.

Graham, Peter W. Jane Austen and Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists. Ashgate, 2008.

Gratzer, Walter, ed. A Literary Companion to Science. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.

Greenslade, William. Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Gross, Paul R. and Norman Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Johns Hopkins, 1997.

---, eds. The Flight From Science and Reason. New York Academy of Sciences, 1996.

Halliday, Sam. Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Hawkins, Harriett. Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory. New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Hawley, Judith, ed. Literature and Science, 1660-1834. 8 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004.

Hayles, N. Katherine. Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.

---. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

---. The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1984.

Haynes, Roslynn. From Faust to Strangelove. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1994.

---. H. G. Wells, Discoverer of the Future: The Influence of Science on His Thought. London: Macmillan, 1981.

Hogan, Patrick. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Huxley, Aldous. Literature and Science. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Hye, Allen E. The Moral Dilemma of the Scientist in Modern Drama. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1998.

Jordanova, L. J., ed. Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature. London: Free Association, 1986.

Miles, Elton. "The Influence of Darwinism on American Literary Criticism." The Impact of Darwinian Thought on American Life and Culture: Papers Read at the Texas Conference on American Studies. Austin: U of Texas, 1959. 27-36.

Koertge, Noretta, ed. A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodern Myths About Science. Oxford UP, 2000.

Kuberski, Philip. Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory. Albany: State U of New York P, 1994.

Lambourne, Robert, Michael Shallis and Michael Shortland. Close Encounters? Science and Science Fiction. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1990.

Lehrer, Jonah. Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Levine, George. Darwin and The Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Levine, George, ed. One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987.

---. Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993.

Limon, John. The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Martin, J. R. Reading Science: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science. London: Routledge, 1998.

Malik, Rex, ed. Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction. London: Francis Pinter, 1980.

McRae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.

Monaghan, Peter. "Two Cultures of Science and Literature No Longer Considered Disparate Fields." Chronicle of Higher Education 37.10 (7 Nov. 1990): A5, A8.

Morton, Peter. The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984.

Murphy, Patricia. In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2006.

Otis, Laura, ed. Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Paradis, J., and T. Postlewait, eds. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1985.

Parsons, Keith, ed. The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology. Prometheus, 2003.

Perkiwitz, Sidney. Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World. Columbia UP, 2007.

Peterfreund, Stuart, ed. Literature and Science: Theory and Practice. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1990.

Petrov, Vladimir, et al. Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts. Baywood, 2007.

Plotnitsky, Arkady. The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the Two Cultures. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.

“The Relations of Literature and Science.” A regularly updated bibliography that appears in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology.

Richardson, Alan. British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Roos, David A. "Matthew Arnold and Thomas Henry Huxley: Two Speeches at the Royal Academy, 1881-1883." Modern Philology 74 (1977): 316-324.

Ross, Andrew, ed. Science Wars. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

Schatzberg, Walter, Ronald A. Waite and Jonathan K. Johnson, eds. The Relations of Literature and Science: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1880-1980. New York: MLA, 1987.

Schleifer, Ronald. Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1990.

Scholnick, Robert J., ed. American Literature and Science. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1992.

Shaffer, Elinor S., ed. The Third Culture: Literature and Science. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1998.

Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten. Science On Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

Shlain, Leonard. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light. New York: Perennial, 1993.

Slade, Joseph W. and Judith Yaross Lee, eds. Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1990.

Slingerland, Edward. What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. Cambridge UP, 2008.

Slusser, George and Eric Rabkin. Hard Science Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1986.

Slusser, George and George Guffey. “Literature and Science.” Interrelations of Literature. NY: MLA, 1982. 176-204.

Smith, Jonathan. Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1994.

Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and A Second Look. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Sokal, Alan D. and Jean Bricmont. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science. Picador, 1999.

---. Intellectual Imposters. Economist Books, 2003.

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy. (by editors of Lingua Franca) U of Nebraska P, 2000.

Spiller, Elizabeth. Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Storey, Robert. Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenic Foundations of Literary Representations. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1996.

Weinberg, Steven. Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. Harvard UP, 2003.

Westfahl, Gary. Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1996.

Westfahl, Gary and George Slusser, eds. No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2002.

Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2006.

Wilson, David L. and Zach R. Bowen. Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2001.

Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. Cambridge: MIT P, 2002.

Wolf, Maryanne. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.

Wood, Jane. Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction: Body, Mind, and Neurology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.

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