Dickens in the City: Science, Technology, Ecology in the Novels of Charles Dickens

This article addresses the obscuring of Dickens’s interest in contemporary science. It argues that Dickens was acquainted with those scientific developments – evolutionary biology and energy physics – that would converge, in the nineteenth century, to form ecological science. Arguing that Dickens th...

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Main Author: John Parham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2010-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/529