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020 _a9781032242217
028 _a: International Book Distributors
_b: Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryagang, New Delhi.
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_d: 30/03/2023
082 _a820.936 HOL
100 _aHolmes, John.
100 _a; Ruston, Sharon.
245 _aThe Routledge research companion to nineteenth-century British literature and science.
_c/John Holmes.
260 _a, Abingdon, Oxon
_b: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
_c, 2017.
300 _axii, 465 pages
_c:24cm.
365 _b4488
505 _a 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
520 _aTracing 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.
650 _aHistory
650 _aEnglish literature 19th century
650 _aGreat Britain
650 _aLiterary Criticism
700 _aJohn Holmes
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