Fine lines : Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art /: Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephen H. Blackwell & Kurt Johnson.
• Editors: Blackwell, Stephen H (Stephen Hardwick), 1965-; Johnson, Kurt
• Contents: Anatomical diagrams -- Introduction -- Black and white figures -- Color plates -- Essays. Drawing with words : the toothwort white and related natural history motifs in Pale fire / Robert Dirig ; A few notes on Nabokov's childhood entomology / Victor Fet ; Chance, nature's practical jokes, and the "non-utilitarian delights" of butterfly mimicry / Victoria N. Alexander ; Nabokov's evolution / James Mallet ; Fictional realsim : scaling the twin peaks of art and science / Dorion Sagan ; Mountains of detail : on the trail with Nabokov's blues / Lauren K. Lucas, Matthew L. Forister, James A. Fordyce, and Chris C. Nice ; Nabokov's morphology : an experiment in appropriated terminology / Stephen H. Blackwell ; Swift and underwing, boulderfield and bog : how Nabokov drew the world from its details / Robert Michael Pyle ; Enchanted hunting : Lolita and Lolita, Diana and diana / Brian Boyd ; Nabokov's notes and labels from the Museum of Comparative Zoology : boon for a recondite biographer or data for a serious systematist? / Naomi E. Pierce, Rodney Eastwood, Roger Vila, Andrew Berry, and Thomas Dai -- Chronology of Nabokov's life.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 595.78/9; Butterflies; Zoological illustration; Illustration zoologique; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General; Butterflies; Zoological illustration
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300220582; 0300220588
• Related ISBNs: 9780300194555; 0300194552
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.