Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / Martin Willis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2006]Copyright date: �2006Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781612774671 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.38/762 22
LOC classification:
  • PN3433.6 .W55 2006eb
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Contents:
Literature, science, and science fiction -- E.T.A. Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. Wells in the laboratory -- Conclusion : the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index.

Literature, science, and science fiction -- E.T.A. Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. Wells in the laboratory -- Conclusion : the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.

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