Novel science : fiction and the invention of nineteenth-century geology / Adelene Buckland
- Author
- Buckland, Adelene
- Published
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction. Formations -- Part 1. Stories in science. Fictions of a former world ; The story undone ; Lyell's mock epic ; Maps and legends -- Part 2. Science in stories. Kingsley's cataclysmic method ; Eliot's whispering stones ; Dickens and the geological city -- Conclusion. Losing the plot -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. "Lines on Staffa" / by Charles Lyell.
- Summary
- Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history.
- Subject(s)
- 1800-1899
- Geology in literature
- Geology—Great Britain—History—19th century
- Literature and science—England—History—19th century
- English literature—19th century—History and criticism
- Géologie dans la littérature
- Littérature et sciences—Angleterre—Histoire—19e siècle
- Littérature anglaise—19e siècle—Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- Geology
- Literature and science
- Großbritannien
- Literatur
- Englisch
- Geologie
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0226923630 electronic book
9780226923635 electronic book
9780226079684 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0226079686 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-364) and index.
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