Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.

This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extractio