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Title:

Uncommon contexts : encounters between science and literature, 1800-1914 / edited by Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Science in literature--History--19th century.
Scientific literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Marsden, Ben, editor of compilation.
Hutchison, Hazel, editor of compilation.
O'Connor, Ralph, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Contents:

I.Literary Genres of Science Writing -- 1.The Experimental Novel and the Literature of Physiology / Paul White -- 2.An Active Nature: Robert Hunt and the Genres of Science Writing / Melanie Keene -- 3.Hyena-Hunting and Byron-Bashing in the Old North: William Buckland, Geological Verse and the Radical Threat / Ralph O'Connor -- II.Pushing the Boundaries of `Literature and Science' -- 4.Re-reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century / Ben Marsden -- 5.Genre and Geometry: Victorian Mathematics and the Study of Literature and Science / Alice Jenkins -- III.Science and Technology in Fiction -- 6.Elizabeth Gaskell's Social Vision: The Natural Histories of Mary Barton / Anne Secord -- 7.`I Have in Mind a Study of a Scotch Seaman': Witnessing Power in Joseph Conrad's Early Literature of the Sea / Crosbie Smith -- 8.`The Telegraph has Other Work to Do': Reading and Consciousness in Henry James's In the Cage / Hazel Hutchison.

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; number 23

ISBN:

1848933622 (hbk.)
9781848933620 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)855200459

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)