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Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

Holmes, John Ruston Sharon
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781472429872
Publisert
2017-05-23
Utgiver
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Routledge
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944 gr
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246 mm
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174 mm
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UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
478

Redaktør
Holmes, John
Ruston Sharon

Om bidragsyterne

John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Sharon Ruston is Professor of Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK.

Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

Holmes, John Ruston Sharon
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Holmes, John Ruston Sharon
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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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 world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which 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. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
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ContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: literature and science in the nineteenth centuryJohn Holmes and Sharon RustonI Contexts1) Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth centurySadiah Qureshi2) Scientific cultures and institutions Martin Willis3) Science and religion Paul White4) Women and science Michelle BoswellII Genres5) The novel as observation and experiment Charlotte Sleigh6) From Gothic to science fiction Adam Roberts7) Poetry and science Gregory Tate8) Scientific literary criticism Peter Garratt9) Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography David Amigoni10) Writing science: scientific prose Jonathan Smith11) Science for the general reader Ralph O’Connor12) Science in the periodical press Gowan Dawson13) Science for children Debbie Bark14) Staging science Iwan MorusIII Mathematical and physical sciences15) Mathematics Alice Jenkins16) Astronomy Pamela Gossin17) Geology Adelene Buckland18) Chemistry Sharon Ruston19) Thermodynamics Barri Gold20) Electricity Stella Pratt-Smith21) Technology Meegan KennedyIV Biological and human sciences22) Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences John Holmes23) Archaeology and anthropology Julia Reid24) Medical research Andrew Mangham25) Sciences of the mind Suzy Anger26) Sexology Anna Katharina Schaffner27) Occult sciences Christine Ferguson Afterword Bernard LightmanIndex
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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 world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which 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. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
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ContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: literature and science in the nineteenth centuryJohn Holmes and Sharon RustonI Contexts1) Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth centurySadiah Qureshi2) Scientific cultures and institutions Martin Willis3) Science and religion Paul White4) Women and science Michelle BoswellII Genres5) The novel as observation and experiment Charlotte Sleigh6) From Gothic to science fiction Adam Roberts7) Poetry and science Gregory Tate8) Scientific literary criticism Peter Garratt9) Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography David Amigoni10) Writing science: scientific prose Jonathan Smith11) Science for the general reader Ralph O’Connor12) Science in the periodical press Gowan Dawson13) Science for children Debbie Bark14) Staging science Iwan MorusIII Mathematical and physical sciences15) Mathematics Alice Jenkins16) Astronomy Pamela Gossin17) Geology Adelene Buckland18) Chemistry Sharon Ruston19) Thermodynamics Barri Gold20) Electricity Stella Pratt-Smith21) Technology Meegan KennedyIV Biological and human sciences22) Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences John Holmes23) Archaeology and anthropology Julia Reid24) Medical research Andrew Mangham25) Sciences of the mind Suzy Anger26) Sexology Anna Katharina Schaffner27) Occult sciences Christine Ferguson Afterword Bernard LightmanIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472429872
Publisert
2017-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
944 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
478

Redaktør
Holmes, John
Ruston Sharon

Om bidragsyterne

John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Sharon Ruston is Professor of Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK.

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