Lent 2009

This term we shall focus on historical fiction. All of the novels will be made available in January in our box-file for reading in the Whipple Library *only*; many are also held in Cambridge University Library, or are still in print.

Useful background reading for all of this term’s seminars can be found in the Isis Focus section on ‘History of Science and Historical Novels’, Isis 98 (2007), 755-795.

We meet fortnightly on Mondays in the upstairs seminar room at Darwin College, from 7.30-9pm. All welcome!

19th January
John Banville, Doctor Copernicus (1976)
Available in Cambridge University Library, from second-hand booksellers, and also still in print: alone, and as part of the 'Revolutions' trilogy.

2nd February
Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (2007 translation by Carol Brown Janeway)
Available in Cambridge University Library, in print, and from second-hand booksellers.

16th February
Russell McCormmach, Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist (1982)
Available in Cambridge University Library, from second-hand booksellers, and also still in print.

2nd March
C.P. Snow, The Search (1934)
Available in Cambridge University Library, and from second-hand booksellers.