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Novel science fiction and the invention of nineteenth-century geology / Adelene Buckland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (377 pages) illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226923635
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR468 .N684 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Part 1. Stories in science. Fictions of a former world ; The story undone ; Lyell's mock epic ; Maps and legends -- Part 2. Science in stories. Kingsley's cataclysmic method ; Eliot's whispering stones ; Dickens and the geological city -- Conclusion. Losing the plot -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. "Lines on Staffa" / by Charles Lyell.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Formations -- Part 1. Stories in science. Fictions of a former world ; The story undone ; Lyell's mock epic ; Maps and legends -- Part 2. Science in stories. Kingsley's cataclysmic method ; Eliot's whispering stones ; Dickens and the geological city -- Conclusion. Losing the plot -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. "Lines on Staffa" / by Charles Lyell.

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