The sleep of (scientific) reason produces (literary) monsters. Or, how science and literature shake hands

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  • Daniel Genís i Mas University of Girona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.3481

Keywords:

Enlightenment, Romanticism, vampires, Frankenstein, science fiction

Abstract

Enlightened reason and romantic imagination were seen as two opposing ways of conceiving art and life. Today, from our historical vantage point, it is difficult to understand one without the other. As if the nightmares of science were nothing more than the food of romantic monsters. This article analyses the evolution of fantastic literature and the birth of scientific fiction in the nineteenth century, as well as the conflict between the rational and the supernatural.

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Author Biography

Daniel Genís i Mas, University of Girona

Researcher-contributor of the Institute of Catalan Language and Culture of the University of Girona and teacher of Catalan language and literature at the Ramon Muntaner High School (Figueres). He wrote La invasió francesa de l’Empordà el 1285 (“The French invasion of the Empordà in 1285”, Castelló Town Hall, 2006) and several papers on Middle-Age and Modern Literature and History.

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Published

2016-04-15

How to Cite

Genís i Mas, D. (2016). The sleep of (scientific) reason produces (literary) monsters. Or, how science and literature shake hands. Metode Science Studies Journal, (6), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.3481
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Science grid: The public understanding of science (2016)

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