Chapter ID: CBB000772453

“This Questionable Little Book”: Narrative Ambiguity in Nineteenth Century Literature of Science (2005)

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Sleigh, Charlotte (Author)


Pages: 15-26
Publication date: 2005
Language: English


Description Looks at 19th-century literature by Bentham, Shelley, Carlyle, Poe, Kingsley, and Wells.


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Authors & Contributors
Hale, Piers J.
Page, Michael R.
Beatty, John H.
Bonet Safont, Juan Marcos
Buckland, Adelene
Frank, Lawrence
Journals
Victorian Studies
American Imago
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Publishers
University of Minnesota
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Chicago Press
Middle Tennessee State University
Concepts
Science and literature
Evolution
Science and culture
Public understanding of science
Science fiction
Astronomy
People
Kingsley, Charles
Poe, Edgar Allan
Wells, Herbert George
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Darwin, Erasmus
Dickens, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Java (Indonesia)
British Isles
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