Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture

ISBN-10: 039304582X
ISBN-13: 9780393045826
Category: Horror films
Pages: 368
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Author: David J. Skal

Description

Traces the history of the mad scientist character in novels, films, and popular culture, and describes how this figure reflects anxieties about scientific and technological change

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