Uncommon Contexts
Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Published on 1. October 2013
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-84893-362-0 (ISBN)
Description
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science.
Reviews / Votes
'The essays here - indispensable examples of how to think about the genres of science communication - therefore have a significance that goes beyond the long nineteenth century ... deserves to be widely read, and not just by students of nineteenth-century science and literature.' Annals of Science 'a methodologically innovative and hugely interesting contribution to the rich seam of historicist Literature and Science studies ... a valuable addition to Pickering & Chatto's "Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century" series.' ISIS 'The contributions collectively explore and analyze a wide range of manifestations of the mutual engagement of literature and science during the longer nineteenth century.' MetascienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84893-362-0 (9781848933620)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Ben Marsden | Hazel Hutchinson | Ralph O'Connor
Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
E-Book
09/2016
Princeton University Press
€53.99
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Content
Introduction - Ben Marsden Part 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 Part 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 Part 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