Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

by Laura Otis (Editor)

Overview

Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better "man's estate", they shared a common language and cultural heritage. The quest for "origins", the nature of the relationship between society and the individual, and what it meant to be human were subjects that occupied both the writing of scientists and novelists.

This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. Fed by a common imagination, scientists and creative writers alike used stories, imagery, style, and structure to convey their meaning, and to produce works of enduring power. It includes writing by Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, Thomas Malthus, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain and many others. Also included are introductions and notes to guide the reader.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199554652
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/03/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	624
Sales rank:	1,025,860
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Laura Otis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her interdisciplinary studies of the nervous system, and is currently working at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xvii
	Select Bibliography	xxix
	Chronology	xxxix
	Prologue: Literature and Science
	Sonnet--To Science (1829)	3
	The Belfast Address (1874)	3
	from Science and Culture (1880)	4
	Literature and Science (1882)	6
	Mathematics, Physical Science, and Technology	9
	Mathematics
	Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843)	15
	from Formal Logic (1847)	19
	From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854)	24
	from The Logic of Chance (1866)	27
	from Through the Looking-Glass (1871)	29
	from The Game of Logic (1886)	32
	from Daniel Deronda (1876)	35
	from The Time Machine (1895)	40
	Physical Science
	from On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800)	43
	from Past and Present (1843)	47
	from Outlines of Astronomy (1849)	51
	from Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852)	55
	On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862)	60
	On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869)	63
	On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870)	68
	from Theory of Heat (1871)	70
	To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874)	74
	Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877)	76
	Answer to Tait	77
	To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878)	78
	The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879)	79
	from Two on a Tower (1882)	81
	The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883)	84
	On a New Kind of Rays (1895)	88
	Telecommunications
	Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837	91
	The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878)	95
	Mental Telegraphy (1891)	99
	The Deep-Sea Cables (1896)	104
	In the Cage (1898)	104
	Bodies and Machines
	from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832)	109
	From Dombey and Son (1847-8)	116
	On the Conservation of Force (1847)	121
	from Erewhon (1872)	124
	To a Locomotive in Winter (1876)	128
	Sciences of the Body	130
	Animal Electricity
	From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791)	135
	from Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)	140
	from Frankenstein (1818)	144
	I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867)	148
	Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body
	from General Anatomy (1801)	150
	from Cellular Pathology (1858)	152
	from Middlemarch (1871-2)	153
	from The Physical Basis of Mind (1877)	161
	Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases
	from The Last Man (1826)	163
	An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)	167
	The Mask of the Red Death (1842)	171
	The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843)	177
	On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861)	181
	Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867)	187
	Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884)	192
	The Stolen Bacillus (1895)	197
	Experimental Medicine and Vivisection
	from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865)	203
	Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881)	209
	Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882)	215
	from Heart and Science (1883)	220
	from The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)	229
	Evolution	235
	The Present and the Past
	from Zoological Philosophy (1809)	240
	from Principles of Geology (1830-3)	246
	from Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)	252
	from The Princess (1847)	255
	from The Origin of Species (1859)	258
	from The Mill on the Floss (1860)	267
	On the Physical Basis of Life (1869)	273
	from The Story of an African Farm (1883)	276
	from Mental Evolution in Man (1888)	279
	The Individual and the Species
	from In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850)	283
	from Principles of Biology (1864-7)	285
	Hap (1866)	289
	from A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)	290
	from The Evolution of Man (1874)	293
	from Unconscious Memory (1880)	297
	Evolution (1880)	299
	To Nature	299
	from Essays on Heredity (1881-5)	300
	Lay of the Trilobite (1885)	303
	Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888)	305
	Sexual Selection
	from Pride and Prejudice (1813)	306
	from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)	308
	from She (1887)	312
	Natural Selection (1887)	317
	from Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)	318
	Sciences of the Mind	325
	The Relationship between Mind and Body
	from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)	331
	On the Reflex Function (1833)	334
	from A Treatise on Insanity (1835)	337
	The Birthmark (1846)	341
	from Bartleby the Scrivener (1856)	346
	from Mind and Brain (1860)	349
	from Lady Audley's Secret (1862)	353
	The Case of George Dedlow (1866)	358
	from Body and Mind (1870)	364
	from Principles of Mental Physiology (1874)	369
	from Principles of Psychology (1890)	373
	Physiognomy and Phrenology
	from Elements of Phrenology (1824)	377
	from Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826)	382
	from Jane Eyre (1847)	386
	from The Lifted Veil (1859)	389
	Mesmerism and Magnetism
	from Facts in Mesmerism (1840)	391
	From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843)	396
	Mesmeric Revelation (1844)	401
	from Letters on Mesmerism (1845)	406
	from Mesmerism in India (1847)	410
	Mesmerism (1855)	415
	From The Moonstone (1868)	419
	Dreams and the Unconscious
	When Thou Sleepest (1837)	422
	Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871)	424
	from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)	428
	Address to the German Chemical Society (1890)	431
	Nervous Exhaustion
	from Elsie Venner (1861)	433
	from Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872)	436
	The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892)	438
	Social Sciences	443
	Creating the Social Sciences
	from Panopticon (1791)	449
	from Manual of Political Economy (1793)	452
	from An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)	453
	from A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832)	456
	from Bleak House (1852-3)	458
	from Positive Philosophy (1853)	464
	from Hard Times (1854)	466
	from Utilitarianism (1861)	469
	from Jude the Obscure (1895)	472
	Race Science
	from The Races of Men (1850)	475
	from Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)	478
	The Yellow Face (1894)	483
	Urban Poverty
	from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)	488
	from London Labour and the London Poor (1851)	493
	from North and South (1855)	496
	East London (1867)	501
	West London	502
	Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879)	502
	from Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)	506
	from East London (1899)	511
	Degeneration
	from The Criminal Man (1876)	516
	from The Nether World (1889)	519
	from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)	521
	from Degeneration (1892)	525
	from The Heavenly Twins (1893)	530
	from Dracula (1897)	535
	Epilogue: Science and Literature
	Prose and Verse (1857)	538
	Explanatory Notes	541
	Publisher's Acknowledgements	576