Herman Melville

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. PROLOGUE: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Sonnet---To Science (1829) / Edgar Allan Poe The Belfast Address (1874) / John Tyndall From Science and Culture (1880) / Thomas Henry Huxley Literature and Science (1882) / Matthew Arnold MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Mathematics. Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) / Ada Lovelace From Formal Logic (1847) / Augustus De Morgan From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) / George Boole From The Logic of Chance (1866) / John Venn From Through the Looking-Glass (1871) From The Game of Logic (1886) / Lewis Carroll From Daniel Deronda (1876) / George Eliot From The Time Machine (1895) / H.G. Wells Physical Science. From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) / Sir William Herschel From Past and Present (1843) / Thomas Carayle From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) / Sir John Herschell From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) / Michael Faraday On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869) On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) / John Tyndall From Theory of Heat (1871) To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874) Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877) Answer to Tait To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) / James Clerk Maxwell The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin From Two on a Tower (1882) / Thomas Hardy The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) / Richard A. Proctor On a New Kind of Rays (1895) / Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Telcommunications. Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837 / Samuel F.B. Morse The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878) / Anonymous Mental Telegraphy (1891) / Mark Twain The Deep-Sea Cables (1896) / Rudyard Kipling In the Cage (1898) / Henry James Bodies and Machines. From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) / Charles Babbage From Dombey and Son (1847-8) / Charles Dickens On the Conservation of Force (1847) / Hermann Von Helmholtz From Erewhon (1872) / Samuel Butler To a Locomotive in Winter (1876) / Walt Whitman SCIENCES OF THE BODY. Animal Electricity. From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791) / Luigi Galvani From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Sir Humphrey Davy From Frankenstein (1818) / Mary Shelley I Sing the Body Electric (1867) / Walt Whitman Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body. From General Anatomy (1801) / Xavier Bichat From Cellular Pathology (1858) / Rudolf Virchow From Middlemarch (1871-2) / George Eliot From the Physical Basis of Mind (1877) / George Henry Lewes Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases. From The Last Man (1826) / Mary Shelley An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842) / Sir Edwin Chadwick [The Mask of the Red Death]( (1842) / Edgar Allan Poe The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) / Oliver Wendall Holmes On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861) / Louis Pasteur Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867) / Sir Joseph Lister Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884) / Anonymous The Stolen Bacillus (1895) / H.G. Wells Experimental Medicine and Vivisection. From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881) / Sir James Paget Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882) / Frances Power Cobbe From Heart and Science (1883) / Wilkie Collins From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) / H.G. Wells EVOLUTION. The Present and the Past. From Zoological Philosophy (1809) / Jean Baptiste De Lamarck From Principles of Geology (1830-3) / Sir Charles Lyell From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) / William Whewell From The Princess (1847) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From The Origin of Species (1859) / Charles Darwin From The Mill on the Floss (1860) / George Eliot On the Physical Basis of Life (1869) / Thomas Henry Huxley From The Story of an African Farm (1883) / Olive Schreiner From Mental Evolution in Man (1888) / George John Romanes The Individual and the Species. From In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From Principles of Biology (1864-7) / Herbert Spencer Hap (1866) From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) / Thomas Hardy From The Evolution of Man (1874) / Ernst Haeckel From Unconscious Memory (1880) / Samuel Butler Evolution (1880) To Nature / Emily Pfeiffer From Essays on Heredity (1881-5) / August Weismann Lay of the Trilobite (1885) / May Kendall Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888) / Gerard Manley Hopkins Sexual Selection. From Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Jane Austen From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin From She (1887) / Henry Rider Haggard Natural Selection (1887) / Constance Naden From Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) / Thomas Hardy SCIENCES OF THE MIND. The Relationship between Mind and Body. From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) / Thomas De Quincey On the Reflex Function (1833) / Marshall Hall From A Treatise on Insanity (1835) / James Cowles Prichard [The Birthmark]( (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne From [bartleby the Scrivener]( (1856) / Herman Melville From Mind and Brain (1860) / Thomas Laycock From Lady Audley's Secret (1862) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Case of George Dedlow (1866) / S. Weir Mitchell From Body and Mind (1870) / Henry Maudsley From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874) / William B. Carpenter From Principles of Psychology (1890) / William James Physiognomy and Phrenology. From Elements of Phrenology (1824) / George Combe From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826) / Johann Gaspar Spurzheim From Jane Eyre (1847) / Charlotte Brontë From The Lifted Veil (1859) / Geroge Eliot Mesmerism and Magnetism. From Facts in Mesmerism (1840) / Chauncey Hare Townsend From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843) / John Elliotson [Mesmeric Revelation]( (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe From Letters on Mesmerism (1845) / Harriet Martineau From Mesmerism in India (1847) / James Esdaile Mesmerism (1855) / Robert Browning From The Moonstone (1868) / Wilkie Collins Dreams and the Unconscious. When Thou Sleepest (1837) / Charlotte Brontë Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871) / Frances Power Cobbe From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) / Robert Louis Stevenson Address to the German Chemical Society (1890) / August Kenkule Nervous Exhaustion. From Elsie Venner (1861) / Oliver Wendell Holmes From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872) / S. Weir Mitchell The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman SOCIAL SCIENCES. Creating the Social Sciences. From Panopticon (1791) From Manual of Political Economy (1793) / Jeremy Bentham From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Thomas Malthus From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832) / J.R. M'Culloch From Bleak House (1852-3) / Charles Dickens From Positive Philosophy (1853) / Auguste Comte From Hard Times (1854) / Charles Dickens From Utilitarianism (1861) / John Stuart Mill From Jude the Obscure (1895) / Thomas Hardy Race Science. From The Races of Men (1850) / Robert Knox From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) / Sir Francis Galton [The Yellow Face]( (1894) / Arthur Conan Doyle Urban Poverty. From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) / Friedrich Engels From London Labour and the London Poor (1851) / Henry Mayhew From North and South (1855) / Elizabeth Gaskell East London (1867) West London / Matthew Arnold Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879) / J.W. Horsley From Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) / George Bernard Shaw From East London (1899) / Walter Besant Degeneration. From The Criminal Man (1876) / Cesare Lombroso From The Nether World (1889) / George Gissing From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) / Oscar Wilde From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau From The Heavenly Twins (1893) / Sarah Grand From Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker EPILOGUE: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Prose and Verse (1857) / Sir John Herschel

The reanimated man / Mary Shelley -- The mummy / Jane Webb -- The new Frankenstein / William Maginn -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville -- The vivisector / Ronald Ross -- The future Eve / Villiers de l'Isle Adam -- The incubated girl / Fred T. Jane -- The surgeon's experiment / W.C. Morrow -- Some experiments with a head / Dick Donovan -- The new Frankenstein / E.E. Kellett -- The man who made a man / Harle Oren Cummins -- Frankenstein II / Leonard Merrick -- The composite brain / Robert S. Carr -- Demons of the film colony / Theodore LeBerthon -- Frankenstein ; or, The man and the monster! / H.M. Milner -- Frankenstein : the man who made a monster / Garrett Ford and Francis Faragoh -- The bride of Frankenstein / John L. Balderston and William Hurlbut -- The workshop of filthy creation / Robert Muller -- The dead man / Fritz Leiber -- The curse of Frankenstein / Jimmy Sangster (cont.) The reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft -- Transformation / Mary Shelley -- The golem / Gustav Meyrink -- Death of a professor / Michael Hervey -- Frankenstein, Unlimited / H.A. Highstone -- IT / Theodore Sturgeon -- Wednesday's child / William Tenn -- Dial "F" for Frankenstein / Arthur C. Clarke -- The plot is the thing / Robert Bloch -- Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Summertime was nearly over / Brian Aldiss -- At last, the true story of Frankenstein / Harry Harrison.

Gogol, N. The overcoat. Melville, H. [Billy Budd, sailor]( James, H. The Aspern papers. Chopin, K. [The awakening]( Conrad, J. Heart of darkness. Joyce, J. [The dead]( Kafka, F. The metamorphosis. Lawrence, D.H. St. Mawr. Porter, K.A. Pale horse, pale rider. Pynchon, T. The crying of Lot 49.

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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by E. A. Poe. Benito Cereno, by H. Melville. Mocha Dick, by J. N. Reynolds. The encounter; a scene at sea, by W. Leggett.

From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams -- Puritan poetry -- Before the birth of cone of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit ; Verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet -- Preface to God's determinations touching his elect ; Prologue to God's determinations touching his elect ; Huswifery ; Mediation six ; Meditation thirty-eight ; Meditation fifty-six / Edward Taylor -- from Magnalia Christi Americana ; A general introduction ; Galeacius secundus : life of William Bradford / William Byrd -- from The history of the dividing line ; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd -- Personal narrative ; Notes on the mind ; Nature / Jonathan Edwards -- The way to wealth ; from The autobiography ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin -- from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman -- from Letters from an American farmer ; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecceur -- from Common sense ; Thoughts on the present state of American affairs ; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine -- The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America ; Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson -- The power of fancy ; To the memory of the brave Americans ; The wild honey suckle ; The Indian burying ground ; To a caty-did / Philip Freneau -- Introductory essay -- Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman ; Legend of the Arabian astrologer ; from A tour of the prairies / Washington Irving -- from The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- Thanatopsis ; Inscription for the entrance to a wood ; To a waterfowl ; The yellow violet ; A forest hymn ; The death of the flowers ; June ; The evening wind ; Hymn of the city ; Song of Marion;s men ; To the fringed gentian ; The prairies ; The battle-field ; Death of Lincoln ; The floor of years ; from The right of workmen to strike / William Cullen Bryant -- from Nature ; The American scholar ; Self-reliance ; Politics ; from War ; Education ; Good-bye ; Concord hymn ; The rhodora ; Each and all ; Compensation ; The snow-storm ; Unity ; Fable ; Merlin ; The world-soul ; Hamatreya ; Mithridates ; Days ; Brahma ; Two rivers ; Voluntaries III ; Terminus ; Music / Ralph Waldo Emerson. [Young Goodman Brown]( The canal boat ; [The minister's black veil]( [Dr. Heidegger's experiment]( [Rappaccini's daughter]( Earth's holocaust ; Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A psalm of life ; The wreck of the Hesperus ; The skeleton in armor ; Walter Von Der Vogelweid ; Evangeline ; The secret of the sea ; My lost youth ; from The song of Hiawatha ; Christmas bells ; Divina commedia ; The challenge ; Shakespeare ; Milton ; Nature ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- To William Lloyd Garrison ; Ichabod ; The Kansas emigrants ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Snow-bound ; The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The fall of the House of Usher ; [Descent into the Maelstrom]( [Masque of the Red Death]( [Tell-tale Heart]( ; [Purloined Letter]( Sonnet, to science ; to Helen ; Israfel ; The city in the sea ; The Sleeper ; To one in paradise ; Hymn ; The conqueror worm ; Dream-land ; The raven ; Ulalume, a ballad ; The bells ; Annabel Lee ; from Poe's review of Twice-told tales ; The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- from The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- from Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- from A Fable for critics ; from the Biglow papers : first series ; The courtin ; ; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell --from Typee ; from White-Jacket ; from Moby -Dick ; from Pierre ; The portent ; Misgivings ; Shiloh ; The house-top ; Southern cross / Herman Melville -- from Song of myself ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; Out of the rolling ocean the crowd ; Beat! Beat! Drums! ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; To a certain civilian ; Bivouac on a mountain side ; Cavalry crossing a ford ; An army corps on the march ; The wound-dresser ; Reconciliation ; O captain! My captain! ; when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; Passage to India ; Darest thou now o soul ; Prayer of Columbus ; To a locomotive in winter ; A noiseless patient spider ; With husky-haughty lips, o sea! ; from Specimen days / Walt Whitman -- Introductory essay -- Letter to the world ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Success is counted sweetest ; I asked no other thing ; The soul selects her own society ; I'm nobody! ; I like to see it lap the miles ; A thought went up my mind to-day ; The brain is wider than the sky ; What soft, cherubic creatures ; A route of evanescence ; I started early ; A narrow fellow in the grass ; She sweeps with many-colored brooms ; Some keep the Sabbath going to church ; I;ll tell you how the sun rose ; To make a prairie ; If you were coming ; I died for beauty ; I've seen a dying eye ; I never saw a moor ; The last night that she lived ; The morning after death ; Because I could not stop for death ; This quiet dust ; To hear an oriole sing ; I got so I could hear his name ; THe lightning is a yellow fork ; Again his voice is at the door ; Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; from Roughing it ; The story of the old ram ; from Life on the Mississippi ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- Muck-a-Muck ; THe luck of roaring camp ; Colonel Starbottle for the plantiff ; Plain language from Truthful James / Bret Harte -- from The rise of Silas Lapham ; from Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells -- from the Education of Henry Adams / henry Adams -- The stirrup-cup ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; The marshes of Glynn ; A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier -- The lesson of the master ; The art of fiction / Henry James -- The open boat ; from The black riders ; War is kind / Stephen Crane -- Introductory essay -- George Crabbe ; Credo ; Richard Cory ; Miniver Cheevy ; The man against the sky ; Mr. Flood's party ; from Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The second choice / Theodore Dreiser -- The tuft of flowers ; The death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; The code ; The road not taken ; Fire and ice ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Not to keep ; A minor bird ; There are roughly zones l; a leaf treader ; Bursting rapture / Robert Frost -- Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Chicago ; Happiness ; Buttons ; Cool tombs ; Four precludes on playthings of the wind ; Accomplished facts ; from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg -- from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Burnt Norton / T.S. Eliot -- [Wash]( Stockholm address / William Faulkner -- In another country ; A clean, well-lightened place / Ernest Hemingway -- Death the proud brother / Thomas Wolfe.

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