The Palgrave Handbook of Nineteenth Century Literature and Science focuses on the interplay between medical and social sciences throughout poetry, fiction, prose, and drama of the period. In five parts, chapters explore how key topics in natural history, medicine, and physics, as well as emerging social sciences such as comparative linguistics and anthropology, were central to nineteenth-century literature. The handbook also attends to burgeoning areas such as affect studies and disability studies. The handbook covers the transition from Natural Philosophy to modern forms of the Natural Sciences, the Physical Sciences, the body, mind and Medicine, and Social Sciences.

Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, popular culture, the body, and the history of medicine.