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Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century

Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century

by Laura Otis, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll

First published: July 17, 2002

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LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. PROLOGUE: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
Sonnet---To Science (1829) / Edgar Allan Poe
The Belfast Address (1874) / John Tyndall
From Science and Culture (1880) / Thomas Henry Huxley
Literature and Science (1882) / Matthew Arnold
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Mathematics.
Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) / Ada Lovelace
From Formal Logic (1847) / Augustus De Morgan
From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) / George Boole
From The Logic of Chance (1866) / John Venn
From Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
From The Game of Logic (1886) / Lewis Carroll
From Daniel Deronda (1876) / George Eliot
From The Time Machine (1895) / H.G. Wells
Physical Science. From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) / Sir William Herschel
From Past and Present (1843) / Thomas Carayle
From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) / Sir John Herschell
From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) / Michael Faraday
On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869)
On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) / John Tyndall
From Theory of Heat (1871)
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874)
Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877)
Answer to Tait
To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) / James Clerk Maxwell
The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
From Two on a Tower (1882) / Thomas Hardy
The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) / Richard A. Proctor
On a New Kind of Rays (1895) / Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Telcommunications. Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837 / Samuel F.B. Morse
The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878) / Anonymous
Mental Telegraphy (1891) / Mark Twain
The Deep-Sea Cables (1896) / Rudyard Kipling
In the Cage (1898) / Henry James
Bodies and Machines. From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) / Charles Babbage
From Dombey and Son (1847-8) / Charles Dickens
On the Conservation of Force (1847) / Hermann Von Helmholtz
From Erewhon (1872) / Samuel Butler
To a Locomotive in Winter (1876) / Walt Whitman
SCIENCES OF THE BODY. Animal Electricity. From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791) / Luigi Galvani
From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Sir Humphrey Davy
From Frankenstein (1818) / Mary Shelley
I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867) / Walt Whitman
Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body. From General Anatomy (1801) / Xavier Bichat
From Cellular Pathology (1858) / Rudolf Virchow
From Middlemarch (1871-2) / George Eliot
From the Physical Basis of Mind (1877) / George Henry Lewes
Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases. From The Last Man (1826) / Mary Shelley
An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842) / Sir Edwin Chadwick
[The Mask of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) (1842) / Edgar Allan Poe
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) / Oliver Wendall Holmes
On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861) / Louis Pasteur
Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867) / Sir Joseph Lister
Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884) / Anonymous
The Stolen Bacillus (1895) / H.G. Wells
Experimental Medicine and Vivisection. From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard
Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881) / Sir James Paget
Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882) / Frances Power Cobbe
From Heart and Science (1883) / Wilkie Collins
From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) / H.G. Wells
EVOLUTION. The Present and the Past.
From Zoological Philosophy (1809) / Jean Baptiste De Lamarck
From Principles of Geology (1830-3) / Sir Charles Lyell
From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) / William Whewell
From The Princess (1847) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From The Origin of Species (1859) / Charles Darwin
From The Mill on the Floss (1860) / George Eliot
On the Physical Basis of Life (1869) / Thomas Henry Huxley
From The Story of an African Farm (1883) / Olive Schreiner
From Mental Evolution in Man (1888) / George John Romanes
The Individual and the Species. From In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From Principles of Biology (1864-7) / Herbert Spencer
Hap (1866)
From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) / Thomas Hardy
From The Evolution of Man (1874) / Ernst Haeckel
From Unconscious Memory (1880) / Samuel Butler
Evolution (1880)
To Nature / Emily Pfeiffer
From Essays on Heredity (1881-5) / August Weismann
Lay of the Trilobite (1885) / May Kendall
Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888) / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sexual Selection. From Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Jane Austen
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin
From She (1887) / Henry Rider Haggard
Natural Selection (1887) / Constance Naden
From Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) / Thomas Hardy
SCIENCES OF THE MIND. The Relationship between Mind and Body.
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) / Thomas De Quincey
On the Reflex Function (1833) / Marshall Hall
From A Treatise on Insanity (1835) / James Cowles Prichard
[The Birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
From [bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) (1856) / Herman Melville
From Mind and Brain (1860) / Thomas Laycock
From Lady Audley's Secret (1862) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Case of George Dedlow (1866) / S. Weir Mitchell
From Body and Mind (1870) / Henry Maudsley
From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874) / William B. Carpenter
From Principles of Psychology (1890) / William James
Physiognomy and Phrenology. From Elements of Phrenology (1824) / George Combe
From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826) / Johann Gaspar Spurzheim
From Jane Eyre (1847) / Charlotte Brontèˆ
From The Lifted Veil (1859) / Geroge Eliot
Mesmerism and Magnetism. From Facts in Mesmerism (1840) / Chauncey Hare Townsend
From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843) / John Elliotson
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W) (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe
From Letters on Mesmerism (1845) / Harriet Martineau
From Mesmerism in India (1847) / James Esdaile
Mesmerism (1855) / Robert Browning
From The Moonstone (1868) / Wilkie Collins
Dreams and the Unconscious. When Thou Sleepest (1837) / Charlotte Brontèˆ
Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871) / Frances Power Cobbe
From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) / Robert Louis Stevenson
Address to the German Chemical Society (1890) / August Kenkule
Nervous Exhaustion. From Elsie Venner (1861) / Oliver Wendell Holmes
From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872) / S. Weir Mitchell
The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
SOCIAL SCIENCES. Creating the Social Sciences.
From Panopticon (1791)
From Manual of Political Economy (1793) / Jeremy Bentham
From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Thomas Malthus
From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832) / J.R. M'Culloch
From Bleak House (1852-3) / Charles Dickens
From Positive Philosophy (1853) / Auguste Comte
From Hard Times (1854) / Charles Dickens
From Utilitarianism (1861) / John Stuart Mill
From Jude the Obscure (1895) / Thomas Hardy
Race Science. From The Races of Men (1850) / Robert Knox
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) / Sir Francis Galton
[The Yellow Face](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571966W) (1894) / Arthur Conan Doyle
Urban Poverty. From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) / Friedrich Engels
From London Labour and the London Poor (1851) / Henry Mayhew
From North and South (1855) / Elizabeth Gaskell
East London (1867)
West London / Matthew Arnold
Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879) / J.W. Horsley
From Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) / George Bernard Shaw
From East London (1899) / Walter Besant
Degeneration. From The Criminal Man (1876) / Cesare Lombroso
From The Nether World (1889) / George Gissing
From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) / Oscar Wilde
From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau
From The Heavenly Twins (1893) / Sarah Grand
From Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker
EPILOGUE: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Prose and Verse (1857) / Sir John Herschel

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