Lure of the Modern
Hoare, Michael Rand![Lure of the Modern](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/363/36322581/CHSBZCOP0336322581.jpg)
This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonnées of literary figures known to have had fascination for, at times an obsession with, science. The linguistic base is broad, primarily French, German and English, but with excursions into Italian, Spanish and Russian. Alongs...