*VICTORIAN POETRY* (Copyright © 2000 West Virginia University Press)
~Special Issue~
"Science and Victorian Poetry"
co-edited by Sally Shuttleworth & Gowan Dawson
It is increasingly recognized that science formed a fundamental and
integral part of nineteenth-century culture and that its growing
importance was registered in a variety of Victorian literary forms.
Recent scholarly work has nevertheless focused almost exclusively on
the interplay of science and the nineteenth-century novel. This
special issue of *Victorian Poetry*, the leading peer-reviewed journal
in the field, provides an opportunity to re-examine the relations of
science and poetry in the light of recent developments in literary
studies and the history of science, as well as extending the concern
with the cultural relations of science into new territories such as
working-class poetry and verse for children.
Possible subjects include:
Scientists as Poets (e. g. Clerk Maxwell, Tyndall, Clifford, Tylor)
Use of Poetry in Scientific Writing
Science in Comic Verse
Racial Science in Poetry
Poetry, Politics and Science
Poetry and Psychology / Physics / Evolution / Geology / Anthropology
The Spasmodic School of Poetry
Ballads of the Industrial Age
Poetry and Technology
Representing the Natural World
Poetry and Popular Science (mesmerism, phrenology etc.)
Poetry as Science Popularisation
Science as Metaphor
Degeneration and Poetry
Intersection of Poetic and Scientific Controversies
Science in Children's Verse
At this stage we welcome expressions of interest and 200 word
abstracts which should be sent by 28 February 2001, and then papers of
6-7,000 words which will be required by 1 July 2001.
Please contact:
Dr Gowan Dawson, Department of English Literature, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TD, Great Britain. Tel: 0114 222 8484;
Fax: 0114 222 8481; E-mail: g.dawson@sheffield.ac.uk
Gowan Dawson
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