Victorian Science and Literature, Part I

Part I General Introduction Volume 1: Negotiating Boundaries 'On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Philosophy', Monthly Repository (1834); William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Founded upon their History (1840) [extracts]; Robert Hunt, The Poetry of Science; or, Studies in the Physical Phenomena of Nature (1848) [extract]; George Henry Lewes, Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences (1857) [extract]; [William Whewell], 'Spedding's Complete Edition of the Works of Bacon' Edinburgh Review (1857) [extract]; John Henry Newman, 'The Mission of the Benedictine Order', Atlantis (1858); Hugh Miller, Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859) [extract]; Eneas Sweetland Dallas, The Gay Science (1866) [extracts]; Charles Kingsley, 'A Charm of Birds', Fraser's Magazine (1867); Michael Faraday, 'Observations on the Education of the Judgment. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain' (1867) [extract]; Thomas Henry Huxley, 'Aphorisms by Goethe', Nature (1869); John Tyndall, 'On the Scientific Use of the Imagination', Fragments of Science for Unscientific People (1871); John Ruskin, 'The Relation to Art of the Sciences of Organic Form', The Eagle's Nest (1872); Edward Dowden, 'The Scientific Movement and Literature', Contemporary Review (1877); Thomas Henry Huxley, 'On Science and Art in Relation to Education' (1882), in Science and Education. Essays by Thomas H Huxley (1893); William Samuel vs Thomas Henry Huxley: Lilly, 'Materialism and Morality', Fortnightly Review (1886), Huxley, 'Science and Morals', Fortnightly Review (1886), Lilly, 'The Province of Physics', Fortnightly Review (1887); Arthur James Balfour, The Foundations of Belief (1895) [extracts] Volume 2: Victorian Science as Cultural Authority Science as a Source of Cultural Authority: [William Whewell], Review of John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, from Quarterly Review (1831); Hugh Miller, 'Stromness and its Asterolepis' and 'The Development Hypothesis, and its Consequences'(1851); Herbert Spencer 'The Social Organism' (1860), in Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891); Thomas Henry Huxley, 'On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge', Collected Essays (1866); John Ruskin, 'Athena Keramitis', Athena, Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths or Cloud and Storm (1903) [extracts]; George Henry Lewes, 'On the Dread and Dislike of Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of Theology', Fortnightly Review (1878); Arthur James Balfour, A Defence of Philosophical Doubt, being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879) [extract]; Frances Power Cobbe, 'The Scientific Spirit of the Age', The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and other Pleas and Discussions (1888); Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1900); [Mona Caird], The Sanctuary of Mercy (1892) [extract]. Science Lending New Cultural Authority to an Existing Field: Baden Powell, The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth; or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy Considered as Subservient to Theology (1838) [extract]; James Cowles Prichard, 'On the Relations of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge', Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848); Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (1874) [extracts]; Henry Maudsley, 'An Address on Medical Psychology', The British Medical Journal (1872); William Kingdon Clifford, 'Right and Wrong, the Scientific Ground of their Distinction', in Lectures and Essays, Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock (eds) (1875); Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait, The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1878); Vernon Lee, 'Apollo the Fiddler: A Chapter on Artistic Anachronism', Fraser's Magazine (1882); Francis Galton, 'Measurement of Character', Fortnightly Review (1884); Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1916) [extracts]. Pro-Science and Anti-Science Satire or Parody: Punch; or, the London Charivari [extracts]; Benjamin Bendigo, pseud. [William M Thackeray] 'Science at Cambridge', Punch (1848); J L, pseud. [John Leech], 'H R H Field-Marshall Chancellor Prince Albert Taking the Pons Asionorum', Punch (1848); 'Unnatural Selection and Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be Read at our Social Science Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-Hour or so with Darwin'), Punch (1860); 'Punch's Scientific Register', Punch (1864); Psychosis, Our modern Philosophers: Darwin, Bain and Spencer; or, The Descent of Man, Mind and Body (1884) [extracts]; [William Cosmo Monkhouse], The Automaton: A Comedy in Three Acts [nd] [extracts]; May Kendall, 'Taking Long Views' and 'The Conquering Machine' Dreams to Sell (1887); May Kendall, 'Ether Insatiable', Songs from Dreamland (1894). Worlds that Project (or Contest) the Cultural Authority of Science: Coventry Patmore, 'The Two Desarts', The Unknown Eros (1878); [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 'Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue', Fortnightly Review (1881); Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower: A Romance (1883) [extract]; James Clerk Maxwell, 'To Hermann Stoffkraft, PhD, The Hero of a Recent Work Called "Paradoxical Philosophy". A Paradoxical Ode. [After Shelley]', in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell... (1884); Grant Allen, 'The Child of the Phalanstery', Strange Stories (1884); Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Great Kleinplatz Experiment', Belgravia: A London Magazine (1885); Israel Zangwill, 'The Memory Clearing House', Idler: an illustrated monthly (1892) Volume 3: Science, Religion and Natural Theology On The Divine Economy Of Nature: William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1837) [extracts]; Baden Powell, The Connexion between Natural and Divine Truth (1838) [extract]; Samuel Brown, 'The Argument of Design Equal to Nothing, or Nieuentyt and Paley vs. David Hume and St. Paul' in Lectures on Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary (1858); Edward Forbes, History of British Starfishes (1841) [extracts]; Frank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (1859) [extract]; Henry Crosskey, The Method of Creation (1889) [extracts]. Cosmic Considerations: Richard Proctor, Other Worlds Than Ours (1871) [extracts]; James Prescott Joule, 'On Matter, Living Force, and Heat', in The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule (1847); John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (1863) [extracts]; Thomas Huxley, 'The Physical Basis of Life' Fortnightly Review (1868); James Iverach, Christianity and Evolution (1894) [extract]. Redesigning Darwin: F Max Muller, The Science of Language (1891) [extracts]; F Max Muller, 'Lectures on Mr Darwin's Philosophy of Language: Second Lecture' (1873); Henry Acland, The Harveian Oration (1865) [extract]; Duke of Argyll [G D Campbell], The Reign of Law (1867) [extracts]; Charles Kingsley, 'The Natural Theology of the Future', Macmillan's Magazine (1871); George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind: First Series: The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5) [extracts]; George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, Second Series: The Physical Basis of Mind (1877) [extract]; Joseph Parker, Job's Comforters, or Scientific Sympathy (1876) [extract]. God And Nature: Knowing, Feeling: David Moir, 'Hymn to Hesperus' and 'Starlight Reflections' from The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Thomas Aird (ed) (1852); Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Nondum' (1866) and 'God's Grandeur', (1877); John Henry Newman, 'Desolation' (1868); Arthur Grey Butler, 'In the Beginning' (1892); George Romanes, 'Charles Darwin - A Memorial Poem', 'The Drama of Life' and 'Natural Theology' (1896) Volume 4: The Evolutionary Epic Before Darwin: The Cosmos, Geology, Fossils, Language, Imagination: John Pringle Nichol, The Architecture of the Heavens (1850) [extracts]; Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859) [extract]; [Hensleigh Wedgwood], 'Grimm's Deutche Grammatik', Quarterly Review (1833); Richard Owen, Palaeontology: A Systematic Study of Extinct Animals and the Geological Relations (1861) [extracts]. The Development Hypothesis: New Directions: [Herbert Spencer], 'The Development Hypothesis', The Leader (1852); [Edmund Saul Dixon], 'A Vision of Animal Existences', Cornhill Magazine (1862); William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872) [extracts]; Edward Clodd, The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution (1901) [extracts]. Late Century Developments and Debates: Evolution as Knowledge, Degeneration, Empire, Gender and Mutuality: Thomas Henry Huxley, Review of Ernst Haeckel, Anthropogenie (1875); [Grant Allen], 'Evolution', Cornhill Magazine (1888); Edwin Ray Lankester, 'Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism', (1880) [extracts]; Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1888) [extract]; Edwin Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880); Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894) [extract]; Eliza Burt Gamble, The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man (1894) [extracts]; Peter Kropotkin, 'Mutual Aid amongst Modern Men', The Nineteenth Century (1896)