Science and Technology: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses ocused on the representation of science and technology in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that suits your course needs.
Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety.
Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World to On the Origin of Species, and from The War of the Worlds to The Coming Race. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.
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From Introduction to the Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century: Humanism and Scientific Inquiry
Joseph Black et al.
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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King James I, “A Sonnet on Tycho Brahe”
King James I
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Francis Bacon, from Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
9 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.08
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Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici
Thomas Browne
21 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.52
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Margaret Cavendish, “A World Made by Atoms” & other poems
Margaret Cavendish
6 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.72
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Margaret Cavendish In Context: Lucretius and Atomism
Joseph Black et al.
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Contexts: Mind and God, Faith and Science
Joseph Black et al.
53 pages @ $0.12/page
$6.36
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “A Plain Account of the Inoculating of the Smallpox by a Turkey Merchant”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein [in Gothic Context Section]
Mary Shelley
5 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.60
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Humphrey Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry
Humphrey Davy
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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From Introduction to the Victorian Era: Technology
Joseph Black et al.
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Charles Darwin, All Selections
Charles Darwin
35 pages @ $0.12/page
$4.20
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Contexts: The New Art of Photography
Joseph Black et al.
26 pages @ $0.12/page
$3.12
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John Ruskin, “The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century”
John Ruskin
6 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.72
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Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden, “Scientific Wooing”, “The Lady Doctor” “Natural Selection”, “Solomon Redivivus, 1886”
Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden
9 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.08
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H. G. Wells, “The New Accelerator,” “The Star”
H. G. Wells
17 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.04
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E. M. Forster, “The Machine Stops”
E. M. Forster
17 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.04