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Medicine and John Keats, OUP, 1991
    Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
    Thomas De Quincey, ‘Animal Magnetism’ (essay), 1840
    Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution: Medicine in Radical London, Chicago, 1989
    George D’Oyly, ‘An Enquiry into the Probability of Mr Hunter’s Theory of Life’ (The Vitality Debate), in Quarterly Review, 1819, vol 43, pp.1-34. Usefully reprinted in Oxford World’s Classics edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Appendix B
    Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson, ‘Exploration, Headhunting and Race Theory’, in Literature, Science and Exploration, CUP, 2004
    Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain 1760-1820, CUP, 1992
    Carl Grabo, A Newton Among Poets: Shelley’s Use of Science in Prometheus Unbound, University of North Carolina Press, 1931
    John Keats, ‘Lamia’ (poem), 1820
    William Lawrence, A Short System of Comparative Anatomy by JF Blumenbach (translated with an Introduction by Lawrence), 1807
    William Lawrence, An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy: Two Lectures, 1816
    William Lawrence, The Natural History of Man (Lectures on Physiology and Zoology), 1819
    William Lawrence, ‘On Life’, Rees’s Cyclopaedia, 1819
    William Lawrence, ‘On Man’, Rees’s Cyclopaedia, 1820
    Trevor H. Levere, Poetry Realized in Nature: Coleridge and Early Nineteenth Century Science, CUP, 1981
    Helen MacDonald, Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories, Yale UP, 2006
    Anne K. Mellor, ‘A Feminist Critique of Science’, in Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fictions, Her Monsters, Routledge, 1988
    Peter Mudford, ‘William Lawrence’, in Journal of the History of Ideas 29, 1968
    Roy Porter and G. Rousseau (editors), The Ferment of Knowledge, CUP, 1980
    Nicholas Roe, ‘John Thelwall’s Essay on Animal Vitality’, in The Politics of Nature, Palgrave, 2002
    Sharon Ruston, Shelley and Vitality, Palgrave, 2005
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818; the 1818 edition reprinted in Oxford World’s Classics, edited by Marilyn Butler, 1993; 2nd edition, 1831, reprinted as composite edition, Penguin Classics, edited by Maurice Hindle, 1992
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, essays ‘On Life’, ‘On Love’, ‘On Dreams’, ‘On a Future State’, ‘On the Devil and Devils’, ‘On Christianity’ (1814-18), in Shelley’s Prose, or The Trumpet of a Prophecy, edited by David Lee Clark, Fourth Estate, 1988
    Walter Wetzels, ‘Johann Wilhelm Ritter: Romantic Physics in Germany’, in Romanticsm and the Sciences, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine, CUP, 1990
    Sorcerer and Apprentice; and Young Scientists
    Charles Babbage, The Decline of Science in England, 1830
    David Brewster, Life of Isaac Newton, Murray’s Family Library, 1831
    The British Association for the Advancement of Science: Early Correspondence, edited by Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray, The Camden Society, 1984
    Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Volume I: Voyaging, and Volume 2: The Power of Place, Pimlico, 1995 and 2000
    Gunther Buttman, In the Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel, Lutterworth Press, 1974
    Charles Darwin, Correspondence: Vol I, 1821-1836, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith, CUP, 1985
    Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836, edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve, Penguin Classics, 1989
    Charles Darwin, Autobiography, edited by Michael Neve, Penguin Classics, 2002
    Humphry Davy, Consolations in Travel, or The Last Days of a Philosopher, Murray’s Family Library, 1829, 1831
    Michael Faraday, Correspondence 1811-1831, Vol 1, edited by Frank A.L.J. James, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1991
    Marie Boas Hall, All Scientists Now, CUP, 1984
    James Hamilton, Michael Faraday: The Life, HarperCollins, 2002
    John Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, 1831
    John Herschel, Herschel at the Cape: Letters and Journals of John Herschel, edited by David S. Evans,