Allen Macduffie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Macduffie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Macduffie |
| SIGNATURE | MACDUFFIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environment
In some ways, it is a story that bears directly upon the wholesale rethinking of the conventional divide between nature and culture that went on in many disciplines over the course of the century, a conceptual shift that has roots in German and British Romantic thought, and finds scientific theorization in the work of Charles Darwin. But it's also a story about the complications and difficulties involved in reimagining the relationship between th…
Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial
Recent theorists of the response to anthropogenic climate change have focused on what Naomi Klein terms “soft denial”: the tendency to accept the scientific consensus while continuing to live as if it were not true. This essay contends that this divided state of mind can be tracked back to the nineteenth century: specifically, in the response to the new biological paradigm articulated most cogently by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1…
The Starry Sky Within
In “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer,” Walt Whitman famously contrasts the arid representations of astronomy—its “charts and diagrams,” “proofs,” and “figures”—with the speaker's solitary night
Victorian Thermodynamics and the Novel
This article discusses the status of thermodynamics in discussions of Victorian literature. It focuses on the relative lack of critical attention paid to this key scientific discourse, and some of the reasons why it promises to be a significant area of future research and debate
Irreversible Transformations
This essay discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's use of the discourse of thermodynamics to structure the transformation in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an irreversible process. Refashioning metamorphosis along scientific lines imbues the moral life of the novelwith the pressure and reality of physical lawand links the individual “flaws” in transformation to a vision blending scienti.c and theological accounts of apocalypse
Irreversible Transformations
This essay discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's use of the discourse of thermodynamics to structure the transformation in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an irreversible process. Refashioning metamorphosis along scientific lines imbues the moral life of the novelwith the pressure and reality of physical lawand links the individual “flaws” in transformation to a vision blending scienti.c and theological accounts of apocalypse
Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial
Recent theorists of the response to anthropogenic climate change have focused on what Naomi Klein terms “soft denial”: the tendency to accept the scientific consensus while continuing to live as if it were not true. This essay contends that this divided state of mind can be tracked back to the nineteenth century: specifically, in the response to the new biological paradigm articulated most cogently by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1…
Victorian Thermodynamics and the Novel
This article discusses the status of thermodynamics in discussions of Victorian literature. It focuses on the relative lack of critical attention paid to this key scientific discourse, and some of the reasons why it promises to be a significant area of future research and debate
Irreversible Transformations
This essay discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's use of the discourse of thermodynamics to structure the transformation in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an irreversible process. Refashioning metamorphosis along scientific lines imbues the moral life of the novelwith the pressure and reality of physical lawand links the individual “flaws” in transformation to a vision blending scienti.c and theological accounts of apocalypse
Victorian Thermodynamics and the Novel
This article discusses the status of thermodynamics in discussions of Victorian literature. It focuses on the relative lack of critical attention paid to this key scientific discourse, and some of the reasons why it promises to be a significant area of future research and debate
The Starry Sky Within
In “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer,” Walt Whitman famously contrasts the arid representations of astronomy—its “charts and diagrams,” “proofs,” and “figures”—with the speaker's solitary night
Environment
In some ways, it is a story that bears directly upon the wholesale rethinking of the conventional divide between nature and culture that went on in many disciplines over the course of the century, a conceptual shift that has roots in German and British Romantic thought, and finds scientific theorization in the work of Charles Darwin. But it's also a story about the complications and difficulties involved in reimagining the relationship between th…
Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial
Recent theorists of the response to anthropogenic climate change have focused on what Naomi Klein terms “soft denial”: the tendency to accept the scientific consensus while continuing to live as if it were not true. This essay contends that this divided state of mind can be tracked back to the nineteenth century: specifically, in the response to the new biological paradigm articulated most cogently by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1…
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