Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

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.

• 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