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Select Books on Victorian Science and Literature.

 

 

 

 

Brown, Daniel. The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense. Cambridge: Cambridge  University Press, 2013

 

Clarke, Bruce, and Linda D. Henderson. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2002.

 

Colligan, Colette, and Margaret Linley. Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image,  Sound, Touch. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011.

 

Dames, Nicholas. The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Dawson, Gowan, and Bernard V. Lightman. Victorian Science and Literature. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

 

DeWitt, Anne. Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel. , 2013.

Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. Chicago:    University of Chicago Press, 2004.

 

Gold, Barri J. Thermopoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press,     2010.

 

Levine, George L. Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

Lightman, Bernard V. Victorian Science in Context. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1997

 

Luckhurst, Roger, and Josephine McDonagh. Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the  Nineteenth Century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002.

 

Marsden, Ben, Hazel Hutchison, and Ralph O'Connor. Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. 2013.

 

Paradis, James G, and Thomas Postlewait. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives. New York, N.Y: New York Academy of Sciences, 1981.

 

Purton, Valerie. Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science.  2013.

 

Shuttleworth, Sally. The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840--1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

 

Smajic, Srdjan. Ghost-seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

 

Stiles, Anne. Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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