Literature And Science In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Laura Otis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019955465X
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century written by Laura Otis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. A. V. Chapple
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century written by J. A. V. Chapple and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042336
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science written by John Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Emmons Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-century Literature written by Robert Emmons Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dale J. Pratt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532213
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Science written by Dale J. Pratt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868 traces how Spanish culture represented scientific activity from the mid-nineteenth century onward. The book combines the global perspective afforded by historical narrative with detailed rhetorical analyses of images of science in specific literary and scientific texts. As literary criticism it seeks to illuminate similarities and differences in how science and scientists are pictured; as cultural history it follows the course of a centuries-long dialogue about Spain and science.

Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615002X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Marketplace written by Aileen Fyfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes—in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure—to the evolution of “popular science.”

Author : Sarah C Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316800
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable written by Sarah C Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.

Author : Robert Emmons Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-century Literature written by Robert Emmons Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262262185
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Serialized written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scientific advance in the nineteenth century was trumpeted and analyzed in periodicals ranging from intellectual quarterlies such as the Edinburgh Review to popular weeklies like the Mirror of Literature, from religious periodicals such as the Evangelical Magazine to the atheistic Oracle of Reason. Scientific articles appeared side by side with the latest fiction or political reporting, while articles on nonscientific topics and serialized novels invoked scientific theories or used analogies drawn from science.The essays collected in Science Serialized examine the variety of ways in which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to both general and specialized readerships. They explore the role of scientific controversy in the press and the cultural politics of publication. Subject range from the presentation of botany in women's magazines to the highly public dispute between Darwin and Samuel Butler, and from discussions of the mind-body problem to those of energy physics. Contributors include leading scholars in the fields of history of science and literature: Ann B. Shteir, Jonathan Topham, Frank A. J. L. James, Roger Smith, Graeme Gooday, Crosbie Smith, Ian Higginson, Gillian Beer, Bernard Lightman, Helen Small, Gowan Dawson, Jonathan Smith, James G. Paradis, and Harriet Ritvo

Author : Jonathan Taylor
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641773
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature written by Jonathan Taylor and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iinvestigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, Burke, Abbott, Poe and Wordsworth. This book explains how some of these literary reimaginings look forward to more modern conceptions of science.