Despite predictions of its impending doom in the late 1970s, the field of literature and science continues to flourish, especially among scholars of eighteenth-century British literature. This essay identifies four main areas of research in this field: poetry and performance, fiction, new ontologies, and politics and gender. It argues that although scholars continue to study the influence of scientific ideas on literary texts, the most ambitious new work explores the relationship between science and literature through the analysis of shared rhetorical practices and common epistemological and ontological structures.

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英国启蒙文学与科学：新方向

尽管有人预言它将在1970年代末期注定要灭亡，但文学和科学领域仍在蓬勃发展，尤其是在18世纪英国文学界的学者中。本文确定了该领域的四个主要研究领域：诗歌与表演，小说，新本体论以及政治与性别。它认为，尽管学者们继续研究科学观念对文学文本的影响，但最雄心勃勃的新著作通过分析共同的修辞手法和共同的认识论和本体论结构来探索科学与文学之间的关系。