Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / / Martin Willis.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kent, Ohio : : Kent State University Press,, [2006] 2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Table of 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.