Literature and science / Charlotte Sleigh.

Houndsmill, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xi, 220 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Empiricism and the novel -- Epistolarity and the democratic ideal -- Idealism and the inhuman -- Realism in literature and the laboratory -- Scientist, moral realism and the new world order -- Subjects of science -- Says who? science and public understanding.