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Uncommon contexts : encounters between science and literature, 1800-1914 /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 23. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.