Between Literature and Science follows through to its emerging 21st-century future the central insight of 20th-century literary and cultural theory: that langua

"The theme of this book is the conflict which arose in the early nineteenth century between, on the one hand, the literary and, on the other hand, the scientifi

One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity an

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern