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Author: Brooke Blake-Taylor
Faculty Mentor:
David Kesterson, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
Department:
Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences & Honors College
Bio:
Brooke Blake-Taylor is currently an undergraduate student pursuing dual degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. Brooke is also a student in the Honors College. Her research on her Honors Chemistry undergraduate thesis in Dr. Acree’s research group resulted in one research paper being accepted for publication in the journal Physics and Chemistry of Liquids (August 2008). A second paper is under review. Brooke is currently undergoing treatment for chronic injuries suffered while on duty as a paramedic when a drunk driver hit her ambulance. Brooke continues to keep her paramedic certifications up to date. She is considering continuing with medicine by attending P.A. school, or further research in graduate school.
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Abstract: The relationships between experience and art are well explored and well known. This paper explores the connections between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville’s writings and their personal experiences. Although they were nineteenth-century writers, they were both influenced in some capacity by science, illness, medicine, and pseudosciences. Hawthorne’s writings that depict science or medicine tend to focus on the human factor and the violation of another’s soul. Melville, on the other hand, portrays a range of scientific and medicinal subjects — from amputations and alcoholism to cetology and ethnology — and offers intricate details to many of these subjects.
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