Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: between a rock and a hard place -- 2. Ida's footprint in the sand: The Princess, geology and the extinction of feminism -- 3. "Uniformitarian arguments are negative only": Lyell and Whewell -- 4. In Memoriam's uniformitarian poetics -- 5. Reading Maud's remains: geological processes and palaeontological reconstructions -- 6. Maud and the unmeaning of names: geology, language theory and dialogism -- Afterword: what remains.
Series:
Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
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