Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / Martin Willis. science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century /
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Kent, Ohio : London :
Kent State University Press ; Eurospan,
2006.
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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