TY - BOOK AU - Holmes, John. AU - ; Ruston, Sharon. AU - John Holmes TI - The Routledge research companion to nineteenth-century British literature and science SN - 9781032242217 U1 - 820.936 HOL PY - 2017/// CY - , Abingdon, Oxon PB - : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - History KW - English literature 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - Literary Criticism N1 - Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: literature and science in the nineteenth century 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 Afterword Index N2 - 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 worldviews. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the long nineteenth century, the companion consists of 27 essays by experts in the field that 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. ER -