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Novel Science Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Adelene Buckland(Author)
384 pages, 9 colour plates, 28 b/w photos
Novel Science
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  • Novel Science ISBN: 9780226079684 Hardback May 2013 Out of Print #203821
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About this book

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history.

Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists – just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors – gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

Contents

Introduction Formations

Part One Stories in Science
     One Fictions of a Former World
     Two The Story Undone
     Three Lyell’s Mock Epic
     Four Maps and Legends

Part Two Science in Stories
     Five Kingsley’s Cataclysmic Method
     Six Eliot’s Whispering Stones
     Seven Dickens and the Geological City

Conclusion Losing the Plot

Acknowledgments
Appendix “Lines on a Staff,” by Charles Lyell

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Biography

Adelene Buckland is a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at King's College London. She is coeditor of A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900.

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Adelene Buckland(Author)
384 pages, 9 colour plates, 28 b/w photos
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"Novel Science is one of the most exciting and challenging contributions yet made to the booming field of science and literature studies. Admirers of Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots and George Levine's Darwin and the Novelists now have a new classic to contend with."
- Ralph O'Connor, author of The Earth on Show

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