From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 417 pages
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature.

In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers.

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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus
9
Bacons New Scientists
23
Foolish Virtuosi
35
Copyright

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