Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on “Form”

Isis 101 (3):578-589 (2010)
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This essay surveys recent discussion of the problem of form in literary studies, identifies several ways in which the notion of form might be expanded, and suggests ways in which such an expanded category of form might be useful to historians of science and literary critics alike.

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