Victorian Science and Literature

General Editors: Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman
Volume Editors: David Amigoni, Suzy Anger, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, James Elwick, Richard England, Piers J Hale, Roger Luckhurst, Jude V Nixon, Ralph O'Connor, James Paradis, Justin Sausman, Sujit Sivasundaram and Jonathan Smith

Part I: 4 Volume Set: 1504pp: 2011
978 1 84893 091 9: 234x156mm: £350.00/$625.00

Part II: 4 Volume Set: c.1600pp: June 2012
978 1 84893 092 6: 234x156mm: £350.00/$625.00

Building on the success of Literature and Science, 1660–1834 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003–4), this ambitious eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture.

Science had a fundamental effect on the Victorian world. Previously, ‘science’ was used to refer to knowledge of a quite general kind, but during the nineteenth century science became more formalized as it grew to encompass new and emerging disciplines. The growing influence of science on Victorian culture can be seen in almost every aspect of life; from industry, urbanization and the spread of imperialism, to religion and the impact of Darwinism.

Theories on the natural world, evolution, race and spiritualism entered the public consciousness, contributing to a more scientifically literate society. In turn literature helped to shape the new sciences, with scientific discourses relying heavily on literary precedents.

Each volume focuses on an important theme from current scholarship. The edition begins with an extensive general introduction as well as having introductions at the start of each volume. Headnotes and explanatory annotations also feature throughout. The collection will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of science and literature, as well as social history, empire studies and occultism.

Features over two hundred texts
Includes rare material by J H Newman, T H Huxley, Michael Faraday, John Ruskin, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, Harriet Martineau and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Large editorial team made up of leading scholars in the field from the UK and North America
Full scholarly apparatus, including a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes
Consolidated index in the final volume

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William Samuel Lilly vs Thomas Henry Huxley

Part I

General Introduction

Volume 1: Negotiating Boundaries (Editors: Piers J Hale and Jonathan Smith)
‘On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Philosophy’, Monthly Repository (1834); William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Founded upon their History (1840) [extracts]; Robert Hunt, The Poetry of Science; or, Studies in the Physical Phenomena of Nature (1848) [extract]; George Henry Lewes, Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences (1857) [extract]; [William Whewell], ‘Spedding’s Complete Edition of the Works of Bacon’ Edinburgh Review (1857) [extract]; John Henry Newman, ‘The Mission of the Benedictine Order’, Atlantis (1858); Hugh Miller, Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859) [extract]; Eneas Sweetland Dallas, The Gay Science (1866) [extracts]; Charles Kingsley, ‘A Charm of Birds’, Fraser’s Magazine (1867); Michael Faraday, ‘Observations on the Education of the Judgment. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain’ (1867) [extract]; Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘Aphorisms by Goethe’, Nature (1869); John Tyndall, ‘On the Scientific Use of the Imagination’, Fragments of Science for Unscientific People (1871); John Ruskin, ‘The Relation to Art of the Sciences of Organic Form’, The Eagle’s Nest (1872); Edward Dowden, ‘The Scientific Movement and Literature’, Contemporary Review (1877); Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘On Science and Art in Relation to Education’ (1882), in Science and Education. Essays by Thomas H Huxley (1893); William Samuel vs Thomas Henry Huxley: Lilly, ‘Materialism and Morality’, Fortnightly Review (1886), Huxley, ‘Science and Morals’, Fortnightly Review (1886), Lilly, ‘The Province of Physics’, Fortnightly Review (1887); Arthur James Balfour, The Foundations of Belief (1895) [extracts]

Volume 2: Victorian Science as Cultural Authority (Editors: Suzy Anger and James Paradis)

Science as a Source of Cultural Authority: [William Whewell], Review of John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, from Quarterly Review (1831); Hugh Miller, ‘Stromness and its Asterolepis’ and ‘The Development Hypothesis, and its Consequences’(1851); Herbert Spencer ‘The Social Organism’ (1860), in Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891); Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge’, Collected Essays (1866); John Ruskin, ‘Athena Keramitis’, Athena, Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths or Cloud and Storm (1903) [extracts]; George Henry Lewes, ‘On the Dread and Dislike of Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of Theology’, Fortnightly Review (1878); Arthur James Balfour, A Defence of Philosophical Doubt, being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879) [extract]; Frances Power Cobbe, ‘The Scientific Spirit of the Age’, The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and other Pleas and Discussions (1888); Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1900); [Mona Caird], The Sanctuary of Mercy (1892) [extract]. Science Lending New Cultural Authority to an Existing Field: Baden Powell, The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth; or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy Considered as Subservient to Theology (1838) [extract]; James Cowles Prichard, ‘On the Relations of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge’, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848); Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (1874) [extracts]; Henry Maudsley, ‘An Address on Medical Psychology’, The British Medical Journal (1872); William Kingdon Clifford, ‘Right and Wrong, the Scientific Ground of their Distinction’, in Lectures and Essays, Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock (eds) (1875); Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait, The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1878); Vernon Lee, ‘Apollo the Fiddler: A Chapter on Artistic Anachronism’, Fraser's Magazine (1882); Francis Galton, ‘Measurement of Character’, Fortnightly Review (1884); Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1916) [extracts]. Pro-Science and Anti-Science Satire or Parody: Punch; or, the London Charivari [extracts]; Benjamin Bendigo, pseud. [William M Thackeray] ‘Science at Cambridge’, Punch (1848); J L, pseud. [John Leech], ‘H R H Field-Marshall Chancellor Prince Albert Taking the Pons Asionorum’, Punch (1848); ‘Unnatural Selection and Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be Read at our Social Science Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-Hour or so with Darwin’), Punch (1860); 'Punch's Scientific Register', Punch (1864); Psychosis, Our modern Philosophers: Darwin, Bain and Spencer; or, The Descent of Man, Mind and Body (1884) [extracts]; [William Cosmo Monkhouse], The Automaton: A Comedy in Three Acts [nd] [extracts]; May Kendall, ‘Taking Long Views’ and ‘The Conquering Machine’ Dreams to Sell (1887); May Kendall, ‘Ether Insatiable’, Songs from Dreamland (1894). Worlds that Project (or Contest) the Cultural Authority of Science: Coventry Patmore, ‘The Two Desarts’, The Unknown Eros (1878); [Algernon Charles Swinburne], ‘Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue’, Fortnightly Review (1881); Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower: A Romance (1883) [extract]; James Clerk Maxwell, ‘To Hermann Stoffkraft, PhD, The Hero of a Recent Work Called "Paradoxical Philosophy". A Paradoxical Ode. [After Shelley]’, in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell… (1884); Grant Allen, ‘The Child of the Phalanstery’, Strange Stories (1884); Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Great Kleinplatz Experiment’, Belgravia: A London Magazine (1885); Israel Zangwill, ‘The Memory Clearing House’, Idler: an illustrated monthly (1892)

Volume 3: Science, Religion and Natural Theology (Editors: Richard England and Jude V Nixon)

On The Divine Economy Of Nature: William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1837) [extracts]; Baden Powell, The Connexion between Natural and Divine Truth (1838) [extract]; Samuel Brown, ‘The Argument of Design Equal to Nothing, or Nieuentyt and Paley vs. David Hume and St. Paul’ in Lectures on Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary (1858); Edward Forbes, History of British Starfishes (1841) [extracts]; Frank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (1859) [extract]; Henry Crosskey, The Method of Creation (1889) [extracts]. Cosmic Considerations: Richard Proctor, Other Worlds Than Ours (1871) [extracts]; James Prescott Joule, ‘On Matter, Living Force, and Heat’, in The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule (1847); John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (1863) [extracts]; Thomas Huxley, ‘The Physical Basis of Life’ Fortnightly Review (1868); James Iverach, Christianity and Evolution (1894) [extract]. Redesigning Darwin: F Max Müller, The Science of Language (1891) [extracts]; F Max Müller, 'Lectures on Mr Darwin's Philosophy of Language: Second Lecture' (1873); Henry Acland, The Harveian Oration (1865) [extract]; Duke of Argyll [G D Campbell], The Reign of Law (1867) [extracts]; Charles Kingsley, ‘The Natural Theology of the Future’, Macmillan’s Magazine (1871); George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind: First Series: The Foundations of a Creed (1874–5) [extracts]; George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, Second Series: The Physical Basis of Mind (1877) [extract]; Joseph Parker, Job’s Comforters, or Scientific Sympathy (1876) [extract]. God And Nature: Knowing, Feeling: David Moir, 'Hymn to Hesperus' and 'Starlight Reflections' from The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Thomas Aird (ed) (1852); Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Nondum' (1866) and ‘God’s Grandeur’, (1877); John Henry Newman, ‘Desolation’ (1868); Arthur Grey Butler, ‘In the Beginning’ (1892); George Romanes, ‘Charles Darwin – A Memorial Poem’, ‘The Drama of Life’ and ‘Natural Theology’ (1896)

Volume 4: The Evolutionary Epic (Editors: David Amigoni and James Elwick)

Before Darwin: The Cosmos, Geology, Fossils, Language, Imagination: John Pringle Nichol, The Architecture of the Heavens (1850) [extracts]; Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859) [extract]; [Hensleigh Wedgwood], ‘Grimm's Deutche Grammatik’, Quarterly Review (1833); Richard Owen, Palæontology: A Systematic Study of Extinct Animals and the Geological Relations (1861) [extracts]. The Development Hypothesis: New Directions: [Herbert Spencer], ‘The Development Hypothesis’, The Leader (1852); [Edmund Saul Dixon], ‘A Vision of Animal Existences’, Cornhill Magazine (1862); William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872) [extracts]; Edward Clodd, The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution (1901) [extracts]. Late Century Developments and Debates: Evolution as Knowledge, Degeneration, Empire, Gender and Mutuality: Thomas Henry Huxley, Review of Ernst Haeckel, Anthropogenie (1875); [Grant Allen], ‘Evolution’, Cornhill Magazine (1888); Edwin Ray Lankester, ‘Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism’, (1880) [extracts]; Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1888) [extract]; Edwin Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880); Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894) [extract]; Eliza Burt Gamble, The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man (1894) [extracts]; Peter Kropotkin, ‘Mutual Aid amongst Modern Men’, The Nineteenth Century (1896)

Part II

Volume 5: New Audiences for Science: Women, Children, Labourers (Editor: Claire Brock)

Thomas Twining, Science Made Easy: A Series of Familiar Lectures on the Elements of Scientific Knowledge Most Required in Daily Life… (1878) [extracts]

Women
Mary Roberts, The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed (1822) [extracts]; ‘MSR’, ‘The Englishwoman in London: I: Dr Elisabeth Blackwell’, Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (1859–1860); ‘MSR’, ‘The Englishwoman in London: VII: The Sanitary Movement’, Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (1859–1860); Lydia Becker, ‘On the Study of Science By Women’, Contemporary Review (1869); Richard A Proctor, ‘The Life of Mrs Somerville’, from Light Science for Leisure Hours. A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects (1871) [extract]; Henry Maudsley, ‘Sex in Mind and Education’, Fortnightly Review (1874); Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 'Sex in Mind and Education: a reply', Fortnightly Review (1874); Margaret Harkness, A City Girl: A Realistic Story (1887) [extracts]; Sophia Jex-Blake, ‘Medical Women in Fiction,’ Nineteenth Century (1893)

Children
The House I Live In: Or, Popular Illustrations of the Structure and Functions of the Human Body. For the Use of Families and Schools, Thomas C Girtin, Surgeon (ed) (1837); Henry Mayhew, The Wonders of Science: Or, Young Humphry Davy: The Life of a Wonderful Boy Written for Boys (1858) [extracts]; John Henry Pepper, Scientific Amusements for Young People (1861) [extracts]; ‘Some Boys Who Became Famous: The Errand-Boy of Jacob’s Well Mews [Michael Faraday]’, The Boy’s Own Paper (1879); Robert Ball, Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens (1891) [extracts]; S F A Caulfeild, ‘Women and Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Part I’, The Girl’s Own Paper (1894); ‘Women and Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Part II’, The Girls’ Own Paper (1895); Florence Sophie Davson, ‘Women’s Work in Sanitation and Hygiene’, The Girls’ Own Paper (1899)

Labourers
Henry Brougham, A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, Preliminary Treatise to the Library of Useful Knowledge (1827); Alfred Smith, An Introductory Lecture on the Past and Present State of Science, In this Country, As Regards the Working Classes (1831); ‘Introduction’ to The Popular Science Review (1862); Edward Aveling, Darwinism and Small Families (1882); Arthur Ransome, On Some Dangers Connected with Dwellings and How to Avoid Them (1883); John Sibbald, Work and Rest (1884); Alfred Russel Wallace, Vaccination a delusion, its penal enforcement a crime: proved by the official evidence in the reports of the Royal Commission (1898); Roger Langdon, The Life of Roger Langdon [1825-1894] told by Himself, with Additions by his Daughter Ellen (1909)

Volume 6: Science, Race, and Imperialism (Editors: Marwa Elshakry and Sujit Sivasundaram)

Travel And Exploration
J D Hooker, Himalayan Journals (1854) [extract]; ‘Lady Astronomer’ [Miss Brown], Caught in the Tropics: A Sequel to In Pursuit of a Shadow (1891); G B Airy, ‘Astronomy’ in John Herschel (ed), A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, and Travellers in General (1851); Paul Du Chaillu, ‘My first gorilla’, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861); Francis Galton, Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa; Being an Account of a Visit to Damaraland in 1851 (1889); Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee, Journal of a residence of two years and a half in Great Britain (1841) [extracts]; Nasir al-Din Shah’s Visit to London (1873)

Exhibiting And Collecting
John Conolly, The Ethnological Exhibitions of London (1853) [extract]; Alexander Moon, A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon… (1824) [extract]; Andrew Smith, South African Quarterly Journal (1830–7) [extracts]; Robert Ellis, ‘British Colonies and Dependencies’ Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue, [extracts]; Madras Central Committee Report for the Grand Exhibition of Industry and Art, Supplement to the Fort Saint George Gazette (1851)

Natural Theologies
John Williams, ‘Corals’ from A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands (1837); Alexander Wylie, Shanghae Serial (1857) [extract]; Henry Baker Tristram, The natural history of the Bible; being a review of the physical geography, geology, and meteorology of the Holy Land, with a description of every animal and plant mentioned in Holy Scripture (1868)

Race And The Human Sciences
J Lamprey, 'On a method of measuring the human form for the use of students in Ethnology', Journal of the Ethnological Society (1869); James Hunt, ‘The Negro’s Place in Nature’ (1863); John Crawfurd, ‘On the Malayan and Polynesian languages and races’, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848); Edward Tregear, The Aryan Maori (1885) [extracts]; T H Huxley, ‘On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Man’, Journal of the Ethnological Society (1870); Isaac Taylor, Origin of the Aryans (1890); ‘Proceedings of the Society: May 5th, 1868’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of London (1868); Harry Johnston, ‘Empire and Anthropology’, Nineteenth Century and After; Harry Johnston, ‘Anthropology and the Empire: Deputation to Mr. Asquith’, Man (1909)

Imperial Technologies And The Sciences Of Governance
Anonymous ballad composed in honour of the British opening of a road to the hills in Ceylon (1828) [ms]; J Clerk, ‘Suez Canal’ Fortnightly Review (1869); J Henniker-Heaton, ‘An Imperial Telegraph System’, The Nineteenth Century (1899); J A Voelcker, Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture (1895) [extracts]; Roderick Murchison, ‘On the antiquity of the physical geography of inner Africa’, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (1864); Robert Schomburgk, Twelve views in the Interior of Guiana (1841) [extracts]; Luteef Khan Bahadoor, A Discourse on the Nature, Objects, and Advantages of the Periodical Census, read at a meeting of the Bethune Society held on the 5th of April 1865 (1865) [extracts]

Science, Nationalism And Anti-Colonialism
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, ‘Bharata Dharma Mahamandala’, lecture delivered at Benares, 3rd January 1906, from Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches (1922) [extract]; ‘India’s Gift to the World’, Brooklyn Standard Union (1895); F D Murad, Scientific education with special reference to the Muslim University Aligarh and India’s neglect of science (1917); Mahendralal Sircar, ‘On the desirability of cultivation of the sciences by the natives of India’, Calcutta Journal of Medicine (1869); Muhammad ‘Abduh, Science and Civilization in Islam and Christianity (1905) [extracts]; Address by Sir Charles Metcalfe to the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, First Meeting Cape Town 1903 (1903); James Hector, ‘On recent Moa Remains in New Zealand’, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute (1871)

Volume 7: Science as Romance (Editor: Ralph O'Connor)

Introduction: reportage on the romance of modern science

Reflections on how to ‘romanticize’ science
[Anon] ‘Miller’s Old Red Sandstone’, Presbyterian Review (1841–2) [extracts]; [Charles Dickens], ‘Review of Hunt’s The Poetry of Science’, The Examiner (1848); William Wilson, An Earnest Little Book upon a Great Old Subject (1851) [extract]

Familiar didactic exposition
Charles Kingsley, Glaucus (1855) [extracts]; John Cargill Brough, ‘The Wonderful Lamp’, The Fairy-Tales of Science (1859); Arabella Buckley, The Fairy-Land of Science (1879) [extract]; John Gordon McPherson, The Fairyland Tales of Science (1889) [extracts]; Henry Hutchinson Prehistoric Man and Beast (1896) [extracts]

Heroic Biography
Thomas Hawkins, Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (1834) [extracts]

Nature Speaks to Humans
Mary Roberts, Voices from the Woodlands (1850) [extracts]; [R H Horne], The Poor Artist; or, Seven Eye-Sights and One Object (1850) [extract]; John Mill, The Fossil Spirit (1854) [extracts]; Frank Constable, The Curse of Intellect (1895) [extracts]

Scientific Fairytale
‘Acheta Domestica’ [L M Budgen], Episodes of Insect Life (1849) [extract]; ‘The Water-Drops: A Fairy Tale’, Household Words (1850); Albert and George Gresswell, ‘The Climbing Fish’, The Wonderland of Evolution [1884]

Visions
Gideon Mantell, Wonders of Geology (1838) [extract]; Horace Smith, ‘A Vision’ (1830s) [ms]; Robert Hunt, ‘The Vision of the Mystery’, Panthea (1849)

Fantastic voyage (didactic mini-genre)
William Buckland, ‘The Professor’s Descent’ (1820s) [ms]; Agnes Catlow, Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants (1851) [extracts]; Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Modern Geology (1859) [extract]; Richard Proctor, ‘A Voyage to the Ringed Planet’, Cornhill Magazine (1872); ‘ALOE’ [C M Tucker], Fairy Frisket; or, Peeps at Insect Life (1874) [extracts]

Fantastic Voyage (Large-scale Fictional Genre)
[Anon], The History of a Voyage to the Moon, With an Account of the Adventurers’ Subsequent Discoveries; An Exhumed Narrative, Supposed to Have Been Ejected from a Lunar Volcano (1864) [extracts]

Romancing the future: technological utopia
W T Stead, ‘Looking Forward: A Romance of the Electrical Age’, Review of Reviews (1890)

Romantic songs and ballads
Edward Forbes, ‘A Naturalist’s Valentine’, from Charles Daubeny (ed), Fugitive Poems (1869); Robert More, ‘The Scientific Man; or, Mrs Crucible’s Lamentation’ [1843]; J F McArdle and F Amos, ‘A Scientific Simpleton, or the insane inventor’s ingenious inventory investigated’ [1881]; Constance Naden, ‘Scientific Wooing’ and ‘Love Versus Learning’, from Complete Poetical Works (1894); Arnold Beresford, ‘Botany (The Professor’s Love-Story)’ (1909)

Volume 8: Marginal and Occult Sciences (Editors: Roger Luckhurst and Justin Sausman)

Phrenology
John Yelloly, ‘A Letter from Charles Villiers to George Cuvier. Of the National Institute of France, on a new Theory of the Brain by Dr Gall, in which that Viscus is considered as the immediate organ of the Moral Faculties’, Monthly Review (1802); George Combe, Elements of Phrenology (1824) [extract]; Daniel Noble, ‘True and False Phrenology’, British and Foreign Medical Review (1840); G H Lewes, ‘Psychology finally recognized as a branch of biology – the Phrenological hypothesis’, The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte (1867)

Mesmerism
‘Abstract of a clinical lecture by Dr Elliotson, on remarkable cases of Sleep waking, and on the effects of animal magnetism on patients with nervous affections’, Lancet (1837); ‘University College Hospital: Animal Magnetism’ Lancet (1838); ‘Animal Magnetism’ Medico-Chiurgical Review (1838); Harriet Martineau ‘On Mesmerism’, Athenaeum (1844); 'Prospectus' Zoist (1843); Dr Engledue, 'Cases of Mesmeric Clairvoyance and Sympathy of Feeling', Zoist (1844); Edmund Gurney, ‘The Stages of Hypnotism’, Mind (1884)

Spiritualism
Robert Dale Owen, ‘Statement of the Subject’, Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1865) [extract]; Rev. Maurice Davies, ‘A Shilling Séance’, Unorthodox London (1873); William Thackeray, ‘Roundabout papers – No. XX. The notch on the axe – A story à la mode’, Cornhill Magazine (1862) [extracts]; John Tyndall, ‘Science and the Spirits’, Fragments of Science (1864); W H Harrison, ‘The Scientific Investigation of Spiritualism,’ Spiritualist (1869) [extract]; Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘A Defence of Modern Spiritualism’, Fortnightly Review (1874) [extracts]; ‘The Spiritualists at Bow St’, Illustrated Police News (1876); Jean-Martin Charcot, ‘Spiritualism and Hysteria,’ Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System (1889)

Psychical Research
Edward Cox, ‘The Province of Psychology,’ Proceedings of the Psychological Society of Great Britain (1875) [extract]; ‘Objects of the Society’, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (1882); ‘Report of the Literary Committee’, PSPR (1882) [extract]; F W H Myers, ‘Science and a Future Life’, Science and A Future Life (1893) [extract]; William Barrett, ‘Psychical Research’, Good Words (1891); ‘Spookical Research’, Saturday Review (1886)

Occultism
Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual, trans A E Waite (1896) [extract]; A E Waite, 'In the Beginning', The Unknown World : A Magazine devoted to Occult Sciences, Magic, Mystical Philosophy, Alchemy, Hermetic Archaeology, and the Hidden Problems of Science, Literature, Speculation and History (1894); Annie Besant, Why I became a Theosophist (1889); Algernon Blackwood, ‘Notes on Theosophy’, Lucifer (1891); W T Stead, ‘How We Intend to Study Borderland,’ Borderland (1893); A E Waite, 'The Threefold Division of Mysticism', The Unknown World (1894); William James, ‘A Suggestion about Mysticism’, Essays in Philosophy

Fantastic Geographies
[Samuel Birley Rowbotham], ‘Parallax’, Zetetic Astronomy (1873) [extracts]; [William Carpenter], ‘Common Sense’, Theoretical Astronomy Examined and Exposed (1864); John Hampden, advert in Scientific Opinion (1870); Americus Symmes, ‘The Theory’, The Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres, Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable within, and widely open about the Poles (1878); Ignatius Donnelly, ‘The Purpose of this Book’, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882); W Scott-Elliott, ‘Description of Lemurian Man’, The Lost Lemuria (1904)

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'The editors have wisely focused on texts that are difficult to find. Each volume features an introduction that maps out the landscape within which the readings serve as markers. Highly recommended.'
– R Gilmour, CHOICE

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