Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers w

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious

Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.

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