American Literature has been regarded since its inception as the preeminent periodical in its . Volume 74, Number 4, December 2002. Preface: Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges.

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The goal of this special issue of American Literature is to encourage scholars in both the sciences and the humanities to estrange themselves from their regular ways of thinking. The essays address the mutual impact of literature and science through a range of issues: geek novels as a subgenre of literature about science, the relationship of narrative form to risk analysis and ecological disaster, the impact of realism and contemporary developments in neurology and brain biology, and the use of technology in the humanities.

Preface: Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges. American Literature 7. (2002) 705-714 In his Rede Lecture of 1959, the English scientist and novelist C. P. Snow coined the phrase "two cultures" to describe a disjunction between the sciences and the humanities that, he believed, both signaled and produced grave social problems. Four years later he explained that his primary objective in the lecture was to sharpen "the concern of rich and privileged societies for those less lucky.

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Dimock and Priscilla Wald Preface Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges In his Rede Lecture of 1959, the English scientist and novelist C. Snow coined the phrase two cultures to describe a disjunction between the sciences and the humanities that, he be- lieved, both signaled and produced grave social problems. Four years later he explained that his primary objective in the lecture was to sharpen the concern of rich and privileged societies for those less lucky.

Priscilla Wald teaches and works on . She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law and literature, and environmental studies. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science and medicine.

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