Heart and Science

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of her hands. The doctor’s secret experiments in vivisection lead to the fact that a young girl becomes infected with a terrible virus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788382926101
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	429
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

Steve Farmer who received his doctorate from the University of Kansas and now teaches at Arizona State University, is a specialist in late Victorian fiction.

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Photographs of Collins’s Manuscript
Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology
Preface

Heart and Science

Appendix A: Reviews of Heart and Science
Appendix B: The Vivisection Debate of the 1870s and 1880s
Appendix C: Frances Power Cobbe’s Account of the Ferrier Trial
Appendix D: Author’s letters about Heart and Science
Appendix E: From A.C. Swinburne’s Obituary Notice on Collins
Appendix F: The Times’s Notice of Professor Helmholtz’s Visit to London, 12 April 1881
Appendix G: Belgravia serial part divisions and corresponding page numbers in this edition
Appendix H: Robert Browning’s Anti-vivisectionist poetry

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Editorial Reviews

This is an important novel of historical and cultural as well as literary interest, and one which every Victorian scholar will find indispensable. Broadview Press has quickly become a leader in the field of producing the best editions of canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British literary texts, and Steve Farmer’s Heart and Science is no exception.” — Rick Simmons, University of South Carolina

“engaging…suspenseful” — The Washington Post

From the Publisher

"engaging...suspenseful"

The Washington Post

"This is an important novel of historical and cultural as well as literary interest, and one which every Victorian scholar will find indispensable. Broadview Press has quickly become a leader in the field of producing the best editions of canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British literary texts, and Steve Farmer's Heart and Science is no exception."

Rick Simmons University of South Carolina