Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
[2006]
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.