Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars

The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread s

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets su

Explores how natural theology features in both early Victorian natural histories and English provincial realist novels of the same period.