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Shelley And Vitality

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Sharon Ruston
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley’s engagement with early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, · 1792-1822 · Knowledge · Science · Literature and science · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Biology in literature · Vitality · Ruston, Sharon
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Literature, Science And Exploration In The Romantic Era : Bodies Of Knowledge

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Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2004
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The authors of this study examine the massive impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Literature and science · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Discoveries in geography · English · British · Foreign countries · Science · Learning and scholarship in literature · Romanticism · Explorers in literature · Geography in literature · Science in literature · Intellectual life · Fulford, Tim, 1962- · Lee, Debbie · Kitson, Peter J
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Charles Dickens In Cyberspace : The Afterlife Of The Nineteenth Century In Postmodern Culture

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Jay Clayton
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2003
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In Charles Dickens in Cyberspace nineteenth-century figures–Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Ada Lovelace, Joseph Paxton, Mary Shelley, and Mary Somerville–meet a lively group of counterparts from today: Andrea Barrett, Greg Bear, Peter Carey, Helene Cixous, Alfonso Cuaron, William Gibson, Donna Haraway, David Lean, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Susan Sontag, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Tom Stoppard. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Dickens, Charles, · 1812-1870 · Appreciation · United States · English literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Theory, etc · Criticism · History · 20th century · Postmodernism (Literature) · Literature and science · Great Britain · Romanticism · Civilization · British influences · Clayton, Jay, 1951-
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The Gothic Body : Sexuality, Materialism, And Degeneration At The Fin De Siècle

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Kelly Hurley
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, strongly indebted to nineteenth-century scientific, medical and social theories, including evolutionism, criminal anthropology and degeneration theory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 19th century · History and criticism · Gothic revival (Literature) · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Literature and society · Literature and science · Horror tales, English · Degeneration in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Materialism in literature · Sex in literature · Hurley, Kelly
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George Eliot And Herbert Spencer : Feminism, Evolutionism, And The Reconstruction Of Gender

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Nancy L. Paxton
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Book, Princeton University Press, 1991
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“This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Eliot, George, · 1819-1880 · Political and social views · Spencer, Herbert, · 1820-1903 · Feminism and literature · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Literature and science · Evolution in literature · Sex role in literature · Women in literature · English fiction · Paxton, Nancy L., 1949-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR4692.F45 P39 1991 AVAILABLE

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In Pursuit Of A Scientific Culture : Science, Art, And Society In The Victorian Age

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Peter Allan Dale
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Book, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
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English literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Literature and science · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Science · Social aspects · Positivism in literature · Science in literature · Intellectual life · Dale, Peter Allan, 1943-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR468.S34 D35 1989 AVAILABLE

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Darwin And The Novelists : Patterns Of Science In Victorian Fiction

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George Levine
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Book, Harvard University Press, 1988
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Darwin, Charles, · 1809-1882 · Influence · English fiction · 19th century · History and criticism · Science in literature · Evolution in literature · Literature and science · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Levine, George Lewis
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR878.S34 L4 1988 AVAILABLE

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The Gothic Body : Sexuality, Materialism, And Degeneration At The Fin De Siècle

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