Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Ta

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and

Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and populari