This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific wri

Considering science as a form of cultural discourse like literature, music, and religion, explores the contacts and affinities between scientists and humanists

Six critics consider what is significantly not present or at least significantly well hidden in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nin

Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configu