Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Synopsis

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. Introduction. Formations -- Part 1. Stories In Science. Fictions Of A Former World ; The Story Undone ; Lyell's Mock Epic ; Maps And Legends -- Part 2. Science In Stories. Kingsley's Cataclysmic Method ; Eliot's Whispering Stones ; Dickens And The Geological City -- Conclusion. Losing The Plot -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Lines On Staffa / By Charles Lyell. Adelene Buckland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [283]-364) And Index.