Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The natural history tradition
- 2 The modern life sciences
- 3 ‘To pin through the body with a name’: Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition
- 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature
- 5 Representing ‘the manner of our seeing’: Literary experimentation and scientific analogy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The natural history tradition
- 2 The modern life sciences
- 3 ‘To pin through the body with a name’: Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition
- 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature
- 5 Representing ‘the manner of our seeing’: Literary experimentation and scientific analogy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature , pp. 220 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010