![]() ![]() ![]() The essays within the collection demonstrate a broad engagement with science across American fiction. While Snow claims that scientific illiteracy is rife within literature, this collection endeavours to show that literature and science can find common ground. Snow’s infamous work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959). In her introduction to Science and American Literature in the 20 th and 21 st Centuries, editor Claire Maniez writes that the collection of essays opens up a cross-disciplinary dialogue with the Snovian Disjunction (Pynchon’s term), the division between the disciplines of science and literature highlighted in C.P.
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