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By Roslynn D. Haynes. 417 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. $55 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8018-4801-6 (cloth); 0-8018-4983-7 (paper).

"Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists. . . . Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension." That is how C.P. Snow characterized the relation between the two groups that this book concerns. Roslynn Haynes, an English professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, views things from the literary pole, and her ambitious survey is clearly written and impressively detailed (with 58 pages of footnotes plus a 30-page bibliography). The definition of literature has been stretched to include a few films, and we get almost as much coverage of the history of science as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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