Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Major Figures
  • 'Sweet Skepticism of the Heart’: Science in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
  • The Madness of Art and Science in Poe's ‘Ligeia’
  • Blood, Bodies, and The Lifted Veil
  • The Science in Shelley's Theory of Poetry
  • Twain's Satire on Scientists: Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes
  • Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and the Problem of Scientific Romanticism
  • Dickinson's Chemistry of Death
  • 'Cousin Holman's Dresser': Science, Social Change, and the Pathologized Female in Gaskell's ‘Cousin Phillis’
  • Disciplinary Hybridity in Shelley's Adonais
  • The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardy's writings
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Modern Science in its Relationship to Literature
  • Science and the Poets
  • Science in Song
  • Fiction and the Science of Society
  • Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals
  • Science and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century American Nature Literature
  • Universal Aspirations: Social Theory and American Literary Culture
• Criticism: Sociopolitical Concerns
  • A Plurality of Worlds
  • Thomas Henry Huxley and Philosophy of Science
• Further Reading