Uncommon contexts : encounters between science and literature, 1800-1914 / edited by Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsden, Ben, editor.

Hutchison, Hazel, editor.

O'Connor, Ralph, editor.

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 23.

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; number 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and science.

Science in literature.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies. Specific case studies include the engineering language used by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the role of physiology in the development of the sensation novel and how mass communication made people lonely.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-230) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780822981879

0822981874

9781781443774

1781443777

9781315654867

1315654865

9781317320357

1317320352

9781317320340

1317320344

9781781440094

1781440093

OCLC:

859836393