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Author Willis, Martin, 1971-

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

Publication Info. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2006]
2006

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
text rdacontent
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index.
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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2013).
Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and science.
Science -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780873388573
9781612774671 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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