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PN3433.6.W67 2006
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TITLE:
Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / Martin Willis.
AUTHOR:
Willis, Martin 1971-
PUBLISHED:
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2006.
DESCRIPTION:
viii, 272 p. ; 23 cm.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index.
NOTES:
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.
ELEC. ACCESS:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005032093.html
SUBJECT:
Science fiction--History and criticism.
SUBJECT:
Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
SUBJECT:
Literature and science.
SUBJECT:
Science--History--19th century.
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