The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth Century British Literature and Science 1st Edition by John Holmes, Sharon Ruston ISBN ‎ 1472429877 ‎ 978-1472429872

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ISBN 10: ‎ 1472429877
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-1472429872
Author: John Holmes, Sharon Ruston 

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.

The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth Century British Literature and Science 1st Table of contents:

PART I Contexts

1 Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth century

2 Scientific cultures and institutions

3 Science and religion

4 Women and science

PART II Genres

5 The novel as observation and experiment

6 From Gothic to science fiction

7 Poetry and science

8 Scientific literary criticism

9 Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography

10 Writing science: scientific prose

11 Science for the general reader

12 Science in the periodical press

13 Science for children

14 Staging science

PART III Mathematical and physical sciences

15 Mathematics

16 Astronomy

17 Geology

18 Chemistry

19 Thermodynamics

20 Electricity

21 Technology

PART IV Biological and human sciences

22 Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences

23 Archaeology and anthropology

24 Medical research

25 Sciences of the mind

26 Sexology

27 Occult sciences

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