Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science seeks to publish the best work emerging at the intersections between literature and science from the medieval period to the future, focusing on scholarship that shows us how “literary” and “scientific” modes of representation and methods of argument came to be constituted historically through a shared attention to common problems.
Series Editors:
Mary Thomas Crane
Thomas F. Rattigan Professor
Department of English, Boston College
Henry S. Turner
Professor of English
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry
Whitney Sperrazza
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827590
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s...
Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book...
The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand...
Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
Julie Orlemanski
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812250909
Pub Date: May 2019
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the period just prior to medicine's modernity—before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism—England was...
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that...
