Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Select Bibliography -- Chronology -- Literature and Science in The Nineteenth Century -- Prologue: Literature and Science -- Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet-To Science (1829) -- John Tyndall The Belfast Address (1874) -- Thomas Henry Huxley From Science and Culture (1880) -- Matthew Arnold Literature and Science (1882) -- Mathematics, Physical Science, and Technology -- Mathematics -- Ada Lovelace Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) -- Augustus De Morgan From Formal Logic (1847) -- George Boole From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) -- John Venn From The Logic of Chance (1866) -- Lewis Carroll From Through the Looking-Glass (1871) -- From The Game of Logic (1886) -- George Eliot From Daniel Deronda (1876) -- H. G. Wells From The Time Machine (1895) -- Physical Science -- Sir William Herschel From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) -- Thomas Carlyle From Past and Present (1843) -- Sir John Herschel From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) -- Michael Faraday From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) -- John Tyndall On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869) -- On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) -- James Clerk Maxwell From Theory of Heat (1871) -- To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874) -- Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877) -- Answer to Tait -- To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) -- Thomas Hardy From Two on a Tower (1882) -- Richard A. Proctor The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) -- Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen On a New Kind of Rays (1895) -- Telecommunications -- Samuel F. B. Morse Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837.

Anonymous The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878) -- Mark Twain Mental Telegraphy (1891) -- Rudyard Kipling The Deep-Sea Cables (1896) -- Henry James in The Cage (1898) -- Bodies and Machines -- Charles Babbage From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) -- Charles Dickens From Dombey and Son (1847-8) -- Hermann Von Helmholtz On the Conservation of Force (1847) -- Samuel Butler From Erewhon (1872) -- Walt Whitman To a Locomotive in Winter (1876) -- Sciences of The Body -- Animal Electricity -- Luigi Galvani From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791) -- Sir Humphry Davy From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) -- Mary Shelley From Frankenstein (1818) -- Walt Whitman I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867) -- Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body -- Xavier Bichat From General Anatomy (1801) -- Rudolf Virchow From Cellular Pathology (1858) -- George Eliot From Middlemarch (1871-2) -- George Henry Lewes From The Physical Basis of Mind (1877) -- Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases -- Mary Shelley From The Last Man (1826) -- Sir Edwin Chadwick An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842) -- Edgar Allan Poe The Mask of the Red Death (1842) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) -- Louis Pasteur On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861) -- Sir Joseph Lister Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867) -- Anonymous Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884) -- H. G. Wells The Stolen Bacillus (1895) -- Experimental Medicine and Vivisection -- Claude Bernard From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) -- Sir James Paget Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881) -- Frances Power Cobbe Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882) -- Wilkie Collins From Heart and Science (1883).

H. G. Wells From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) -- Evolution -- The Present and the Past -- Jean Baptiste De Lamarck From Zoological Philosophy (1809) -- Sir Charles Lyell From Principles of Geology (1830-3) -- William Whewell From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson From The Princess (1847) -- Charles Darwin From The Origin of Species (1859) -- George Eliot From The Mill on the Floss (1860) -- Thomas Henry Huxley On the Physical Basis of Life (1869) -- Olive Schreiner From The Story of an African Farm (1883) -- George John Romanes From Mental Evolution in Man (1888) -- The Individual and the Species -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson From In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850) -- Herbert Spencer From Principles of Biology (1864-7) -- Thomas Hardy Hap (1866) -- From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) -- Ernst Haeckel From The Evolution of Man (1874) -- Samuel Butler FRom Unconscious Memory (1880) -- Emily Pfeiffer Evolution (1880) -- To Nature -- August Weismann From Essays on Heredity (1881-5) -- May Kendall Lay of the Trilobite (1885) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888) -- Sexual Selection -- Jane Austen From Pride and Prejudice (1813) -- Charles Darwin From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) -- Henry Rider Haggard From She (1887) -- Constance Naden Natural Selection (1887) -- Thomas Hardy From Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) -- Sciences of The Mind -- The Relationship between Mind and Body -- Thomas De Quincey From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) -- Marshall Hall On the Reflex Function (1833) -- James Cowles Prichard From A Treatise on Insanity (1835) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Birthmark (1846) -- Herman Melville From Bartleby the Scrivener (1856) -- Thomas Laycock From Mind and Brain (1860) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon From Lady Audley's Secret (1862).

S. Weir Mitchell The Case of George Dedlow (1866) -- Henry Maudsley From Body and Mind (1870) -- William B. Carpenter From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874) -- William James From Principles of Psychology (1890) -- Physiognomy and Phrenology -- George Combe From Elements of Phrenology (1824) -- Johann Gaspar Spurzheim From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826) -- Charlotte Brontë From Jane Eyre (1847) -- George Eliot From The Lifted Veil (1859) -- Mesmerism and Magnetism -- Chauncey Hare Townsend From Facts in Mesmerism (1840) -- John Elliotson From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843) -- Edgar Allan Poe Mesmeric Revelation (1844) -- Harriet Martineau From Letters on Mesmerism (1845) -- James Esdaile From Mesmerism in India (1847) -- Robert Browning Mesmerism (1855) -- Wilkie Collins From The Moonstone (1868) -- Dreams and the Unconscious -- Charlotte Brontë When Thou Sleepest (1837) -- Frances Power Cobbe Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871) -- Robert Louis Stevenson From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) -- August Kekulé Address to the German Chemical Society (1890) -- Nervous Exhaustion -- Oliver Wendell Holmes From Elsie Venner (1861) -- S. Weir Mitchell From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) -- Social Sciences -- Creating the Social Sciences -- Jeremy Bentham From Panopticon (1791) -- From Manual of Political Economy (1793) -- Thomas Malthus From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) -- J. R. M'Culloch From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832) -- Charles Dickens From Bleak House (1852-3) -- Auguste Comte From Positive Philosophy (1853) -- Charles Dickens From Hard Times (1854).

John Stuart Mill From Utilitarianism (1861) -- Thomas Hardy From Jude the Obscure (1895) -- Race Science -- Robert Knox From The Races of Men (1850) -- Sir Francis Galton From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) -- Arthur Conan Doyle The Yellow Face (1894) -- Urban Poverty -- Friedrich Engels From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) -- Henry Mayhew From London Labour and the London Poor (1851) -- Elizabeth Gaskell From North and South (1855) -- Matthew Arnold East London (1867) -- West London -- J. W. Horsley Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879) -- George Bernard Shaw From Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) -- Walter Besant From East London (1899) -- Degeneration -- Cesare Lombroso From The Criminal Man (1876) -- George Gissing From The Nether World (1889) -- Oscar Wilde From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) -- Max Nordau From Degeneration (1892) -- Sarah Grand From The Heavenly Twins (1893) -- Bram Stoker From Dracula (1897) -- Epilogue: Science and Literature -- Sir John Herschel Prose and Verse (1857) -- Explanatory Notes -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Footnotes.