Title: Nature transfigured : science and literature, 1700-1900 /
Authors: Christie, John; Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Literature English.; English literature History and criticism; Literature and science Great Britain History; English literature History and criticism; Literature and science Great Britain History; Science in literature; Nature in literature
Contents: Introduction : Between literature and science / John Christie and Sally Shuttleworth -- Defoe's natural philosophy and the worlds of credit / Simon Schaffer -- Laputa revisited / John Christie -- "The whole secret of health" : mind, body and medicine in Tristram Shandy / Roy Porter -- "The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible" : Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Humphry Davy, science and poetry / Trevor H. Levere -- Hawthorne's alchemy : the language of science in The scarlet letter / David Van Leer -- Psychological definition and social power : phrenology in the novels of Charlotte Brontë / Sally Shuttleworth -- Darwin and the growth of language theory / Gillian Beer -- Science for women and children : the dialogue of popular science in the nineteenth century / Greg Meyers -- Thomas Hardy and the best consummation possible / Peter Dale.