Sull'Autore
Laura Otis is Associate Professor of English, Hofstra University. In 2000, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her interdisciplinary studies of literature and science. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Laura Otis
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) (2002) — A cura di — 107 copie
Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics (Medicine and Culture) (1999) 14 copie
Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in Literature and Science) (2001) 8 copie
Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists (Explorations in Narrative Psychology) (2015) 3 copie
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Otis moves from this set-up of the issues to discuss the influence of these network theories on nineteenth-century literature. Most notable is, of course, Eliot's Middlemarch and its famous "web." This is often taken evolutionarily, but Otis provides a strong reading of the novels webs of communication. The book ends with readings of literature that's more explicitly telegraphic, most of which I've read: Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes, Wired Love, and Henry James's "In the Cage." The book then ends by considering the "web without wires" (i.e., telepathic communication) and Dracula. One sometimes wishes Otis could step back more: there are compelling readings of individual texts here (I ought to cite her take on Middlemarch), but the overall "theory" of her argument is not readily apparent. But as an examination of ways of thinking embodied in ways of writing, it rates highly.… (altro)