ENGL 5720 - Literature and Science

3 hours

Examines the relationships between literature and science in any historical period of American or British literature. Involves the close reading of both literary and scientific texts in order to explore how leading scientific figures and theories (such as Darwin and evolutionary biology) provided literary works with new representational practices and new ways of examining the connections between science, culture and ethics. May also encompass such areas of interdisciplinary investigation as anthropology and literature or literature and medicine.

Prerequisite(s): None.

May be repeated for credit as topics vary.