Novel science : fiction and the invention of nineteenth-century geology / Adelene Buckland.
- Buckland, Adelene
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
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Description
A study of the contributions that Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, William Buckland, and others made to nineteenth-century British literary culture. Just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors Walter Scott and Lord Byron, these scientists influenced Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens.
Publication/Creation
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Physical description
377 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction. Formations -- Part 1. Stories in science. Fictions of a former world ; The story undone ; Lyell's mock epic ; Maps and legends -- Part 2. Science in stories. Kingsley's cataclysmic method ; Eliot's whispering stones ; Dickens and the geological city -- Conclusion. Losing the plot -- Appendix. "Lines on Staffa" / by Charles Lyell.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-364) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAK.AIOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780226079684
- 0226079686
- 0226923630
- 9780226923635