Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 18
Select Bibliography......Page 30
Chronology......Page 40
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 44
The Belfast Address (1874)......Page 46
From Science and Culture (1880)......Page 47
Literature and Science (1882)......Page 49
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY......Page 52
Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843)......Page 58
From Formal Logic (1847)......Page 62
From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854)......Page 67
From The Logic of Chance (1866)......Page 70
From Through the Looking-Glass (1871)......Page 72
From The Game of Logic (1886)......Page 75
From Daniel Deronda (1876)......Page 78
From The Time Machine (1895)......Page 83
From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800)......Page 86
From Past and Present (1843)......Page 90
From Outlines of Astronomy (1849)......Page 94
From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839–55) (1852)......Page 98
On the Age of the Sun’s Heat (1862)......Page 103
On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869)......Page 106
On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870)......Page 111
From Theory of Heat (1871)......Page 113
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874)......Page 117
Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877)......Page 119
Answer to Tait......Page 120
To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878)......Page 121
The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879)......Page 122
From Two on a Tower (1882)......Page 124
The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883)......Page 127
On a New Kind of Rays (1895)......Page 131
Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837......Page 134
The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878)......Page 138
Mental Telegraphy (1891)......Page 142
In the Cage (1898)......Page 147
From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832)......Page 152
From Dombey and Son (1847–8)......Page 159
On the Conservation of Force (1847)......Page 164
From Erewhon (1872)......Page 167
To a Locomotive in Winter (1876)......Page 171
SCIENCES OF THE BODY......Page 173
From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791)......Page 178
From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)......Page 183
From Frankenstein (1818)......Page 187
I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867)......Page 191
From General Anatomy (1801)......Page 193
From Cellular Pathology (1858)......Page 195
From Middlemarch (1871–2)......Page 196
From The Physical Basis of Mind (1877)......Page 204
From The Last Man (1826)......Page 206
An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)......Page 210
The Mask of the Red Death (1842)......Page 214
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843)......Page 220
On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861)......Page 224
Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867)......Page 230
Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884)......Page 235
The Stolen Bacillus (1895)......Page 240
From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865)......Page 246
Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881)......Page 252
Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882)......Page 258
From Heart and Science (1883)......Page 263
From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)......Page 272
EVOLUTION......Page 278
From Zoological Philosophy (1809)......Page 283
From Principles of Geology (1830–3)......Page 289
From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)......Page 295
From The Princess (1847)......Page 298
From The Origin of Species (1859)......Page 301
From The Mill on the Floss (1860)......Page 310
On the Physical Basis of Life (1869)......Page 316
From The Story of an African Farm (1883)......Page 319
From Mental Evolution in Man (1888)......Page 322
From In Memoriam, LIII–LV, CXVIII (1850)......Page 326
From Principles of Biology (1864–7)......Page 328
Hap (1866)......Page 332
From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)......Page 333
From The Evolution of Man (1874)......Page 336
From Unconscious Memory (1880)......Page 340
To Nature......Page 342
From Essays on Heredity (1881–5)......Page 343
Lay of the Trilobite (1885)......Page 346
Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888)......Page 348
From Pride and Prejudice (1813)......Page 349
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)......Page 351
From She (1887)......Page 355
Natural Selection (1887)......Page 360
From Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)......Page 361
SCIENCES OF THE MIND......Page 368
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)......Page 374
On the Reflex Function (1833)......Page 377
From A Treatise on Insanity (1835)......Page 380
The Birthmark (1846)......Page 384
From Bartleby the Scrivener (1856)......Page 389
From Mind and Brain (1860)......Page 392
From Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)......Page 396
The Case of George Dedlow (1866)......Page 401
From Body and Mind (1870)......Page 407
From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874)......Page 412
From Principles of Psychology (1890)......Page 416
From Elements of Phrenology (1824)......Page 420
From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826)......Page 425
From Jane Eyre (1847)......Page 429
From The Lifted Veil (1859)......Page 432
From Facts in Mesmerism (1840)......Page 434
From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843)......Page 439
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)......Page 444
From Letters on Mesmerism (1845)......Page 449
From Mesmerism in India (1847)......Page 453
Mesmerism (1855)......Page 458
From The Moonstone (1868)......Page 462
When Thou Sleepest (1837)......Page 465
Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871)......Page 467
From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)......Page 471
Address to the German Chemical Society (1890)......Page 474
From Elsie Venner (1861)......Page 476
From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872)......Page 479
The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892)......Page 481
SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 486
From Panopticon (1791)......Page 492
From Manual of Political Economy (1793)......Page 495
From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)......Page 496
From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832)......Page 499
From Bleak House (1852–3)......Page 501
From Positive Philosophy (1853)......Page 507
From Hard Times (1854)......Page 509
From Utilitarianism (1861)......Page 512
From Jude the Obscure (1895)......Page 515
From The Races of Men (1850)......Page 518
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)......Page 521
The Yellow Face (1894)......Page 526
From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)......Page 531
From London Labour and the London Poor (1851)......Page 536
From North and South (1855)......Page 539
East London (1867)......Page 544
Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves’ Language (1879)......Page 545
From Mrs Warren’s Profession (1898)......Page 549
From East London (1899)......Page 554
From The Criminal Man (1876)......Page 559
From The Nether World (1889)......Page 562
From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)......Page 564
From Degeneration (1892)......Page 568
From The Heavenly Twins (1893)......Page 573
From Dracula (1897)......Page 578
Prose and Verse (1857)......Page 581
Explanatory Notes......Page 584
Publisher’s Acknowledgements......Page 619