Science, scientific intellectuals, and British culture in the early atomic age : a case study of George Orwell, Jacob Bronowski, P.M.S. Blackett and J.G. Crowther

This dissertation proposes a revised understanding of the place of science in British literary and political culture during the early atomic era. It builds on recent scholarship that discards the cultural pessimism and alleged ‘two-cultures’ dichotomy which underlay earlier histories. Countering inf...

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Main Author: Desmarais, Ralph John
Other Authors: Edgerton, David
Published: Imperial College London 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519240