In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of
energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the …

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental
consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale …

The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now,
been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this …

" The Lives of Machines is intelligent, closely argued, and persuasive, and puts forth a
contention that will unsettle the current consensus about Victorian attitudes toward the …

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the
eighteenth century. It examines the'vitalist'turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its …

Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The
Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple …

How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the
perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a …

The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the
sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how …

There is a familiar critical narrative about the fin de siècle, into which gothic fiction fits very
neatly. It is the story of the gradual decay of Victorian values, especially their faith in …

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and
science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a …