Ebook: Fine lines: Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art

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 realism : 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