Art’s Artifice

  • Victoria Dickenson
    Drawn from Life: Scienceand Art in the Portrayal of the New World. University of Toronto Press
  • Edward Galligan
    The Truth of Uncertainty: Beyond Ideology in Science and Literature. University of Missouri Press
Reviewed by Christoph Irmscher
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This review “Art’s Artifice” originally appeared in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 136-139.

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