Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture

by David J. Skal

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From Frankenstein to Jurassic Park, the mad scientist is one of the modern world's most instantly recognizable cultural icons. This is an exploration of popular culture's perennial fascination with demented doctors, crazed clinicians, and technologically obsessed fiends. A prototype outsider, shunted off to the sidelines of serious discourse - to B-movies, pulp novels and comic books - the mad scientist, the author argues, serves as a necessary lightning...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:039304582X

ISBN13:9780393045826

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.7"

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