An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.

List of Illustrations; About the Authors; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Unmapped Countries: Biology, Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century; PART I: Science and Literature; 1. 'This Questionable Little Book': Narrative Ambiguity in Nineteenth Century Literature of Science; 2. Vestiges of English Literature: Robert Chambers; PART II: Evolution and Degeneration; 3. Aestheticism, Immorality and the Reception of Darwinism in VIctorian Britain; 4. Constructing Darwinism in Literary Culture; 5. Close Encounters with a New Species: Darwin's Clash with the Feminists at the End of the Nineteenth Century; 6. Mutual Aid, a Factor of Peter Korpotkin's Literay Criticism; 7. The Savage Within: Evolutionary Theroy, Anthropology and the Unconscious in Fin-de-siècle Literature; 8. Homer on the Evolutionary Scale: Interrelations between Biology ad Literature in the Writings og William Gladstone and Grant Allen; 9. 'Naturfreund' or 'Naturfeind'? Darwinism in the Early Drawings of Alfred Kubin; PART III: Physiology and Pathology; 10. Cells and Networks in Nineteenth Century Literature; 11. Contagious Sympathies: George Eliot and Rudolf Virchow; 12. From Parasitology to Parapsychology: Parasites in Nineteenth Century Science and Literature; 13. Surgical Engineering in the Nineteenth Century: Frankenstein, The Island of Dr Moreau, Flatland; 14. 'Serious' Science versus 'Light' Entertainment? Feminity Concepts in Nineteenth Century British Medial Discourse and Popular Fiction; 15. Night Terrors: Medical and Literary Representations of Childhood Fear; Sensuous Knowledge; Notes; Bibliography