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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).
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.
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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.
Subject English literature -- 19th century.
Science -- Literary collections.
American literature -- 19th century.
Science -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Naturwissenschaften.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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 bk.)
0191587702 (electronic bk.)
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