Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multi

The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture throughou

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, a

This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and