On literature and science : essays, reflections, provocations / Philip Coleman, editor.

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2007], ©2007.

270 pages ; 24 cm

Chaucer, technology and the rise of science fiction in English / Helen Conrad-O'Brien -- A pocketful of death : horology and literature in Renaissance England / John Scattergood -- Bodies of knowledge and knowledge of the body in sixteenth-century literature / Amanda Piesse -- Broken machines and tainted minds : mental health and Hamlet / Andrew J. Power -- Hippopotamus prince; or, the perils of visiting England in 1850 / Kate Hebblewaite -- Edgar Allen Poe and the orang-utan / Stephen Matterson -- H.G. Wells and the imagination of disaster / Darryl Jones -- Surrealism, psychiatry, and the science of the irrational / Benjamin Keatinge -- Logic in literature : bilogic strands in the poetry of Louis MacNeice / Ross Skelton -- 'I'm an experiment' : reflections on science in American short fiction / Philip Coleman -- Can poetry be scientific?/ Peter Middleton -- Science and poetry : not so different? / Iggy McGovern -- Wandering wood / Randolph Healy -- Matter 15 : water and air words evaporate / Meredith Quartermain -- Technē / Henry Clifton -- Slow drag / Allen Fisher -- Snow / Maurice Scully -- From C++ / Dylan Harris -- dorade / Kit Fryatt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.