Novel Science
Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Introduction Formations
Part One Stories in Science
One Fictions of a Former World
Two The Story Undone
Three Lyell’s Mock Epic
Four Maps and Legends
Part Two Science in Stories
Five Kingsley’s Cataclysmic Method
Six Eliot’s Whispering Stones
Seven Dickens and the Geological City
Conclusion Losing the Plot
Acknowledgments
Appendix “Lines on Staffa,” by Charles Lyell
Notes
Bibliography
Index
British Society for Literature and Science: BSLS Book Prize
Short Listed
Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève: Marc-Auguste Pictet Prize for History of Science
Won
Earth Sciences: History of Earth Sciences
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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