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Title Literature and science in the nineteenth century : an anthology / edited with an introduction and notes by Laura Otis.

Publication Info. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 575 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxviii).
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.
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.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Science -- Literary collections.
Science.
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Subject American literature -- 19th century.
American literature.
Science -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Literature.
Literature.
Added Author Otis, Laura, 1961-
Other Form: Print version: Literature and science in the nineteenth century. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0192839799 (DLC) 2002027420 (OCoLC)49593855
ISBN 9780191587702 (electronic book)
0191587702 (electronic book)
1280680148
9781280680144
9780192839794 (paper)
0192839799 (paper)