"It is written" : representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction

This thesis examines the representation of two broad fields of science – the new physics (relativity and quantum mechanics) and the modern biological synthesis (genetics and evolutionary theory) – in two genres of writing – popular science writing and narrative fiction. Specifically, I consider the...

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Main Author: Smith, Bradon T. L.
Other Authors: Clifford, David
Published: University of Cambridge 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555203