Forbidden knowledge : from Prometheus to pornography / Roger Shattuck.

  • Shattuck, Roger.
Date:
1996
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Publication/Creation

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Physical description

xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. [349]-358) and index

Contents

The far side of curiosity -- Milton in the Garden of Eden -- Faust and Frankenstein -- The pleasures of abstinence : Mme de Lafayette and Emily Dickinson -- Guilt, justice, and empathy in Melville and Camus -- Taking stock -- Knowledge exploding : science and technology -- The divine Marquis -- The sphinx and the unicorn -- Appendix I : Six categories of forbidden knowledge -- Appendix II : The occult -- Appendix III : "The sphinz" / by Francis Bacon.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

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    History of Medicine
    ZJ.AN
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  • 0312146027