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Cerdded, Fay Stevens
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon
The Goose
Review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó's Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.
Two Poems, Andrew Taylor Dr
Rewriting The Goose, Camilla Nelson
In The Loves Of Barnacles, Carol Watts
Bell In The Rain, Annabel Banks
Spatial Engagement With Poetry By Heather H. Yeung, Deborah C. Bowen
Spatial Engagement With Poetry By Heather H. Yeung, Deborah C. Bowen
The Goose
Review of Spatial Engagement with Poetry by Heather H. Yeung.
Strange Compositions: Chemistry And Its Occult History In Victorian Speculative Fiction, Susan Hroncek
Strange Compositions: Chemistry And Its Occult History In Victorian Speculative Fiction, Susan Hroncek
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation examines how depictions of chemistry in Victorian literature are influenced by concerns regarding the history of chemistry and its relationship to the occult. Among these depictions, I consider non-fiction writings of the period, such as histories of science and articles from periodicals, but I focus on novels that prominently feature chemistry, including Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s A Strange Story (1862), Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), George Griffith’s Olga Romanoff (1894), T. Mullet Ellis’s Zalma (1895), and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897). These texts link chemistry with its origins in alchemy, the occult, and …