title: Lessons from literature for the historian of science (and vice versa): reflections on "form".
abstract: This essay surveys recent discussion of the problem of form in literary studies, identifies several ways in which the notion of form might be expanded, and suggests ways in which such an expanded category of form might be useful to historians of science and literary critics alike.
authors.affiliation: Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA.
authors.forename: Henry S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D019359:Knowledge; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history*; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*