02309nam 22006011 450 991079109950332120230124184123.01-61277-467-9(CKB)2550000001181701(EBL)3120170(SSID)ssj0001037200(PQKBManifestationID)12372389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037200(PQKBWorkID)11042245(PQKB)10699005(MiAaPQ)EBC3120170(Au-PeEL)EBL3120170(CaPaEBR)ebr10784035(CaONFJC)MIL561727(OCoLC)922995212(EXLCZ)99255000000118170120100423d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMesmerists, monsters, and machines science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century /Martin WillisKent, Ohio :Kent State University Press,[2006]©20061 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87338-857-7 1-306-30476-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index.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.Science fictionHistory and criticismFiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and scienceScienceHistory19th centuryScience fictionHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.Literature and science.ScienceHistory809.38/762Willis Martin1971-1163524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791099503321Mesmerists, monsters, and machines3763724UNINA