Forbidden knowledge : from Prometheus to pornography / Roger Shattuck.
- Shattuck, Roger.
- Date:
- 1996
- Books
About this work
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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Location Status History of MedicineZJ.ANOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0312146027