Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
1. The Experimental Novel and the Literature of Physiology
2. An Active Nature: Robert Hunt and the Genres of Science Writing
3. Hyena-Hunting and Byron-Bashing in the Old North: William Buckland, Geological Verse and the Radical Threat
4. Re-reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century
5. Genre and Geometry: Victorian Mathematics and the Study of Literature and Science
6. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Vision: The Natural Histories of Mary Barton
7. ‘I Have in Mind a Study of a Scotch Seaman’: Witnessing Power in Joseph Conrad’s Early Literature of the Sea
8. ‘The Telegraph has Other Work to Do’: Reading and Consciousness in Henry James’s In the Cage
Notes
Index