Alice Jenkins is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are mainly in nineteenth-century literature and science. She is the co-editor with Juliet John of Rereading Victorian Fiction (Macmillan, 2000 and 2002) and Rethinking Victorian Culture (Macmillan, 2000) and of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Literary Sourcebook (Routledge, 2006). She has published articles and essays on Michael Faraday, Mary Somerville, and various aspects of the cultural life of Victorian science, and others on twentieth-century fantasy writing...