Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-364) and index.
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Stories in science. Fictions of a former world ; The story undone ; Lyell's mock epic ; Maps and legends -- Science in stories. Kingsley's cataclysmic method ; Eliot's whispering stones ; Dickens and the geological city.
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A study of the contributions that Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, William Buckland, and others made to nineteenth-century British literary culture. Just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors Walter Scott and Lord Byron, these scientists influenced Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Geology-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Geology in literature.
Literature and science-- England-- History-- 19th century.