Wagner, Sven: The scientist as God

A typological study of a literary motif, 1818 to the present. This study explores the scientist-as-God motif in a wide range of literary texts, spanning different genres (fiction, drama), periods (Romantic to Postmodern), and national literatures (British, American, Canadian). The study takes a predominantly typological approach, distinguishing and examining the principal modes of representing the godlike scientist. These include cautionary tragedies about scientific hubris, feminist comedies of creaturely self-fashioning, and probing allegories of divine failure. 263 Seiten, gebunden (Anglistische Forschungen; Band 421/Winter Verlag 2012) leichte Lagerspuren

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