This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component - what might be called 'the literature of science' - and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture throughout the period of the 19th-century. Scholars from a number of different disciplines contributed to this study.