The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-2987-2 (ISBN)
John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham, UK. Sharon Ruston is Professor of Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK.
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: literature and science in the nineteenth century
John Holmes and Sharon Ruston
I Contexts
1) Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth century
Sadiah Qureshi
2) Scientific cultures and institutions
Martin Willis
3) Science and religion
Paul White
4) Women and science
Michelle Boswell
II Genres
5) The novel as observation and experiment
Charlotte Sleigh
6) From Gothic to science fiction
Adam Roberts
7) Poetry and science
Gregory Tate
8) Scientific literary criticism
Peter Garratt
9) Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography
David Amigoni
10) Writing science: scientific prose
Jonathan Smith
11) Science for the general reader
Ralph O’Connor
12) Science in the periodical press
Gowan Dawson
13) Science for children
Debbie Bark
14) Staging science
Iwan Morus
III Mathematical and physical sciences
15) Mathematics
Alice Jenkins
16) Astronomy
Pamela Gossin
17) Geology
Adelene Buckland
18) Chemistry
Sharon Ruston
19) Thermodynamics
Barri Gold
20) Electricity
Stella Pratt-Smith
21) Technology
Meegan Kennedy
IV Biological and human sciences
22) Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences
John Holmes
23) Archaeology and anthropology
Julia Reid
24) Medical research
Andrew Mangham
25) Sciences of the mind
Suzy Anger
26) Sexology
Anna Katharina Schaffner
27) Occult sciences
Christine Ferguson
Afterword
Bernard Lightman
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 944 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4724-2987-7 / 1472429877 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-2987-2 / 9781472429872 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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