Science and literature in the nineteenth century

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Context and Commentary General editor: Arthur Pollard Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century J.A.V.Chapple Authors in the nineteenth century were variously inspired, fascinated and appalled by the scientific advances of their age. J.A.V. Chapple provides an introductory account of the great scientific generalisations, discoveries and daring hypotheses which caught the imagination of writers Üke Coleridge, George Eliot, Tennyson and Hardy. Quotations from key literary texts and from the works of scientists üke John Herschel, Lyell, Darwin, Max Muller and E.B. Taylor are used to illustrate a common culture which, under increasing strain, lasted through much of the century. J.A.V. Chapple is Professor of English at the University of Hull. Students of literature or history would often benefit from fuller knowledge of the relevant background material behind the topics they study. The aim of the Context and Commentary series is to meet the needs of these students, as well as... Tovább

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Context and Commentary General editor: Arthur Pollard Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century J.A.V.Chapple Authors in the nineteenth century were variously inspired, fascinated and appalled by the scientific advances of their age. J.A.V. Chapple provides an introductory account of the great scientific generalisations, discoveries and daring hypotheses which caught the imagination of writers Üke Coleridge, George Eliot, Tennyson and Hardy. Quotations from key literary texts and from the works of scientists üke John Herschel, Lyell, Darwin, Max Muller and E.B. Taylor are used to illustrate a common culture which, under increasing strain, lasted through much of the century. J.A.V. Chapple is Professor of English at the University of Hull. Students of literature or history would often benefit from fuller knowledge of the relevant background material behind the topics they study. The aim of the Context and Commentary series is to meet the needs of these students, as well as those whose interdisciplinary work may embrace both subjects. Each volume contains selected passages from both the primary historical documentation of the period and the imaginative literature relating to it. Key passages of prose and poetry are represented and linked by a commentary which places the material in its broader setting. In this way the study of both literature and history should be enhanced. Vissza