Literature and science in the nineteenth century : an anthology /

Literature and science in the nineteenth century : an anthology /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xlii, 575 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	English literature -- 19th century. Science -- Literary collections. American literature -- 19th century. Science -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. American literature. English literature. Science. Electronic books. History. Literary collections. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11260826

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Other authors / contributors:	Otis, Laura, 1961-
ISBN:	9780191587702 0191587702 1280680148 9781280680144 9780192839794 0192839799
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxviii). Print version record.
Summary:	This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Michael Faraday, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many others. - ;'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Ty.
Other form:	Print version: Literature and science in the nineteenth century. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0192839799

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Literature and science
Mathematics, physical science, and technology. Mathematics
Physical science
Telecommunications
Bodies and machines
Sciences of the body. Animal electricity
Cells and tissues and their relation to the body
Hygiene, germ theory, and infectious diseases
Experimental medicine and vivisection
Evolution. The present and the past
The individual and the species
Sexual selection
Sciences of the mind. The relationship between mind and body
Physiognomy and phrenology
Mesmerism and magnetism
Dreams and the unconscious
Nervous exhaustion
Social sciences. Creating the social sciences
Race science
Urban poverty
Degeneration
Epilogue: Science and literature.