Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

From Popular Science to Contemplation: the Clouds of The Cloud of Unknow ing - Gillian Rudd
"Dreams and Plain Dotage": the Value of The Birth of Mankind [1540-1 654] - Elaine Hobby
Natural Rights and Natural History in Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft - Sharon Ruston
George Eliot, Geometry and Gender - Alice Jenkins
On the Back of the Light Waves: Novel Possibilities in the "Fourth Dimensio n" - Katy Price
Le Fanu's "Carmilla", Ireland, and Diseased Vision - Martin Willis
Evolution, Literary History and Science Fiction - Brian Baker
"The Luxury of Storytelling": Science, Literature and Cultural Contest in Ian McEwan's Narrative Practice - David Amigoni