Romantic and Victorian

Current books on literature and science in the long nineteenth century include:

• • Will Abberley, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914
  • Rachel Ablow, Victorian Pain
  • Richard Adelman, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900

• • Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District

• • James Robert Allard, Romanticism, Medicine and the Poet's Body

• • Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

• • David Amigoni, Colonies, Cults and Evolution

• • Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds
  • Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
  • Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830

• • Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry

• • Ryan Barnett and Serena Trowbridge (eds), Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond

• • Heike Bauer, English Literary Sexology
  • Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

• • Karl Bell, The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England 1780-1914

• • Kirstie Blair, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
  • Katharina Boehm, Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture

• • Karen Bourrier, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

• • Aviva Briefel, The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

• • Dometa Wiegand Brothers, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity
  • Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism

• • Daniel Brown, The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense

• • Gavin Budge, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852

• • Adelene Buckland, Novel Science

• • Ian Burney, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination

• • Katherine Byrne, Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

• • Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
  • Julia S. Carlson, Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print

• • Victoria Carroll, Science and Eccentricity
  • Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• • Tina Young Choi, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
  • Dermot Coleman, George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature

• • Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley (eds), Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
  • Megan Coyer, Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858
  • Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration

• • Nicholas Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City : Paris, London, New York

• • Jeremy Davies, Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

• • Gowan Dawson, Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

• • Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman (eds), Victorian Science and Literature (8 vols)

• • Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

• • Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin A. Danahay (eds), Victorian Animal Dreams

• • Anne DeWitt, Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel

• • Alexander Dick, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830

• • Larry Duffy, Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
  • Monika Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall (eds), Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century

• • James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

• • Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (eds), The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe , vols 1 and 2

• • Michelle Faubert, Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of the Romantic-Era Psychologists
  • Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits
  • Michael R. Finn, Figures from the Pre-Freudian Unconscious: From Flaubert to Proust
  • Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain
  • Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham (eds), Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives
  • Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
  • Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History
  • Richard D Fulton and Peter H Hoffenberg (eds), Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible

• • Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium
  • Michael Gamer, Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry

• • Peter Garratt, Victorian Empiricism

• • Laurie Garrison, Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels

• • John Glendening, The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels

• • Barri J. Gold, ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
  • Amanda Jo Goldstein, Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life

• • Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science

• • Graeme Gooday, Domesticating Electricity

• • Rae Beth Gordon, Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910

• • Pamela Gossin, Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe

• • Peter W. Graham, Jane Austen and Charles Darwin

• • Anne Green, Changing France: Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire

• • Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins

• • Hilary Grimes, Late Victorian Gothic
  • Marit Grøtta, Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and Nineteenth-Century Media

• • Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines

• • Dewey W Hall, Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912
  • Jason D Hall, Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter

• • Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature

• • Ian Hesketh, The Science of History in Victorian Britain

• • Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton

• • John Holmes, Darwin's Bards

• • Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
  • J Andrew Hubbell, Byron’s Nature: A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology

• • William Hughes, That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination
  • Helena Ifill, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction

• • Markus Iseli, Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

• • Noel Jackson, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry

• • Alice Jenkins, Space and the ‘March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815-1850
  • Michael Jonik, Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman
  • Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett (eds), Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

• • Suzanne Keen, Thomas Hardy's Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy's Imagination 

• • Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairytales of Victorian Britain
  • Theresa M Kelley, Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture

• • Meegan Kennedy, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel

• • Tamara Ketabgian, The Lives of Machines
  • Jordan Kistler, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum

• • Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
  • Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall (eds), Frankenstein's Science
  • Karin Koehler, Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

• • Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult

• • Anna Kornbluh, Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

• • Bernhard Kuhn, Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism

• • Clark Lawlor, Consumption and Literature

• • George Levine, Darwin the Writer

• • George Levine, Darwin Loves You

• • George Levine, Realism, Ethics and Secularism

• • Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science

• • Bernard Lightman and Aileen Fyfe (eds),Science in the Marketplace

• • David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
  • Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

• • Shawn Malley, From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854

• • Steven McLean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells

• • Steven McLean (ed.), H. G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays

• • Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

• • Clinton Machann, Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading

• • M. M. Mahood, The Poet as Botanist

• • Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O’Connor (eds.), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
  • Catherine Maxwell, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

• • Jill L. Matus, Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction
  • Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters (eds), Dickens and the Imagined Child

• • Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic
  • Wendy Moore, The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
  • Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science

• • Rosa Mucignat, Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869: Imagined Geographies
  • Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal

• • Alex Murray, Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle

• • Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain

• • Graham Neville,Coleridge and Liberal Religious Thought: Romanticism, Science and Theological Tradition

• • Ralph O’Connor, The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

• • Mark Offord, Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel

• • Michael Page, The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H. G. Wells
  • Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe

• • Jennifer Phegley et al, (eds.), Transatlantic Sensations
  • Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility
  • Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

• • Valerie Purton (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

• • Melissa Anne Raines, George Eliot’s Grammar of Being

• • Julia Reid, Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle

• • Benjamin Reiss, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
  • Angelique Richardson (ed), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind

• • Virginia Richter, Literature After Darwin

• • John Rignall et al (eds.), Ecology and the Literature of the British Left
  • Nicholas Roe (ed.), John Keats and the Medical Imagination
  • Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire

• • Jason R. Rudy, Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics

• • Cannon Schmitt, Darwin and the Memory of the Human

• • James Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age

• • Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen and Animals

• • Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900

• • Srdjan Smajić, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists
  • Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater

• • Yasmin Solomonescu , John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination

• • David Spanagel, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York

• • Tabitha Sparks, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

• • Anne Stiles (ed.), Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920

• • Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Jessica Straley, Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

• • Jonathan Strauss, Human Remains: Medicine, Death and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris

• • Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
  • Alex Tankard, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives

• • Gregory Tate, The Poet's Mind

• • Jenny Bourne Taylor and Sally Shuttleworth (eds), Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890
  • Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
  • Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
  • Michael Tondre, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender

• • Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin

• • David Ward, Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination
  • Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
  • Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming. Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830
  • Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals
  • Laura White, The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World
  • James Whitehead, Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History

• Martin Willis, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines

• • Edward J. Ahearn, Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001

• • Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, Child of the Enlightenment

• • Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint, The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

• • Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science

• • Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

• • Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

• • Philip Coleman (ed.), On Literature and Science

• • Robert Crossley, Imagining Mars

• • Jenny Davidson, Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
  • Tom Furniss, Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820

• • Harold Fromm, The Nature of Being Human

• • Samantha George, Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing

• • Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen (eds), The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science
  • John Holmes and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

• • Jeanette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp (eds), Darwin in Atlantic Cultures

• • Gregory Radick, The Simian Tongue

• • Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction

• • Nicholas Ruddick, The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel

• • Sharon Ruston (ed.), Literature and Science

• • Charlotte Sleigh, Literature and Science

• • Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better

• • Thomas Söderqvist (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

• • Will Tattersdill, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press

• • Shelley Trower, Senses of Vibration
  • Lena Wånggren, Gender, Technology and the New Woman
  • Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
  • Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals

• Dongshin Yi, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic
• Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture