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History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

Literature (Relations to Science) – Mathematics

[Bibliography main page] Literature (Relations to Science)
SUBJECT	CITATION
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Bender, Bert. Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism. 389pp. Kent / London: Kent State University Press, 2004.
Literature (relations to science)	Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926. 440 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996.
Literature (relations to science)	Berni, Christine. “Writing the Body Across the Disciplines: Social Science and Literature, 1880-1940.” DAI 56/03 (1995): 921-A. (Doct. diss., University of Rochester, 1995)
Literature (relations to science)	Boeckmann, Catherine Ann. “A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912.” DAI 58/08 (1998): 3129-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Irvine, 1997)
Literature (relations to science)	Boeckmann, Cathy. A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912. 238pp. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2000.
Literature (relations to science)	Browner, Stephanie P. “Contesting the Body: Literature and Medicine in 19th-Century American Culture.” DAI 55/08 (1995): 2388-A. (Doct. diss., Indiana University, 1994)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Cartwright, John H. and Brian Baker. Science and Literature: Social Impact and Interaction. 471pp. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. (Includes U.S. aspects of the topic)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Cisco, Michael. “Supernatural Embarrassment: The Polemic between Science and the Supernatural in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville.” DAI 64/12 (2004): 4462-A. (Doct. diss., New York University, 2004)
Literature (relations to science)	Coale, Samuel. Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance. 197pp. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c1998.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Cuddy, Lois A. and Claire M. Roche, editors. Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity. 285pp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003.
Literature (relations to science)	Davis, Cynthia J. “Unnatural Subjects: Locating Identity in American Medical, Scientific and Literary Narratives, 1840-1910.” DAI 55/04 (1994): 962-A. (Doct. diss., Duke University, 1994)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Dolezal, Joshua A. “The Re-Imagination of the Scientific Physician in American Literature, 1850-1930.” DAI 66/05 (2005): 1767-A. (Doct. diss., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2005)
Literature (relations to science)	Essid, Joe. “No God but Electricity: American Literature and Technological Enthusiasm in the Electrical Age, 1893-1939.” DAI 54/04 (1993): 1362-A. (Doct. Diss., Indiana University, 1993)
Literature (relations to science)	Evans, Bradley W. “The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature: A Genealogy of Cultures, 1865-1930.” DAI 59/01 (1998): 169-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 1998)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Fore, Dana Yuen. “Masculinity, Disability, and the Literature of Bodies on Display.” DAI 66/10 (2006): -A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Davis, 2005)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Frank, Lawrence. Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. 249pp. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
Literature (relations to science)	Gardiner, Helen J. “American Utopian Fiction, 1885-1910: The Influence of Science and Technology.” DAI 39/11 (1979): 6840-A. (Doct. diss., University of Houston, 1978)
Literature (relations to science)	Gardner, Jared. Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787 -1845. 238pp. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Goldman, Eric A. “The Psycho-Babel Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Mental Heteroglossia in the Psychological Works of Hawthorne, Poe, Dickinson, and Melville.” DAI 66/03 (2005): 993-A. (Doct. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005)
Literature (relations to science)	Graff, Bennett. “Horror in Evolution: Determinism, Materialism and Darwinism in the American Gothic.” DAI 56/05 (1995): 1777-A. (Doct. diss., City University of New York, 1995)
Literature (relations to science)	Hallock, Thomas Bonneau. “Natural History, Exploration, and the Boundaries of Literature in the Early American Republic.” DAI 56/11 (1996): 4396-A. (Doct. diss, New York University, 1995)
Literature (relations to science)	Jurecic, Ann. “The ‘Genus Medical Woman’: Representations of Female Doctors and Nurses in American Fiction from the Civil War into the 20th Century.” DAI 56/02 (1995): 553-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1994)
Literature (relations to science)	King, Laurel Allison. “God’s in His Lab and All’s Right with the World: Depictions of Science in 19th Century Literature.” DAI 61/06 (2000): 2301-A. (Doct. Diss., University of Washington, 2000)
Literature (relations to science)	Kopp, James Joseph. “Curing the Ills of Society: Medicine and the Public’s Health in American Utopian Fiction, 1888-1914.” DAI 51/05 (1990): 1667-A. (Doct. Diss., George Washington University, 1990)
Literature (relations to science)	Lindquist, Barbara Lee. “Literature, Popular Science, and Gender: Thermodynamics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Culture and Thought.” DAI 59/06 (1998): 2024-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Little, Deandra Javon. “The Body Electric: American Literature and the Culture of Electromagnetism, 1750-1855.”DAI 62/07 (2002): 2455-A. (Doct. diss., Vanderbilt University, 2001)
Literature (relations to science)	O’Kelley, Patrick W. “The Invisible Civil War: Literature and Science in Post-Bellum America.” DAI 58/03 (1997): 873-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1997)
Literature (relations to science)	Romero, Lora P. “The Government of the Body: Health Reform and the American Antebellum Novel.” DAI 50/04 (1989): 983-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Berkeley, 1988)
Literature (relations to science)	Rosenthal, Bernard. City of Nature: Journeys to Nature in the Age of American Romanticism. 273pp. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1980.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Seitler, Dana. “Degenerate America: Embodiment, Modernity, and the Culture of Science (1890–1937).” DAI 61/10 (2001): 4000-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 2000)
Literature (relations to science)	Simons, Kent S. “Taming the Powers of the Air: Science, Pseudo-Science, and Religion in 19th-Century American Literature.” DAI 47/01 (1986): 183-A. (Doct. diss., Emory University, 1985)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Smith, Andrew Michael. “Regeneration through Photography: Invention and Identity in Pre-Twentieth-Century United States Literature.” DAI 64/03 (2003): 910-A. (Doct. diss., University of New Mexico, 2003)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Solomon, Jennifer Welch. “The Body Made Visible: Scientific Practices of Seeing and Literary Naturalism.” DAI 65/11 (2005): 4201-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2004)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Thrailkill, Jane F. “Doctoring the Text: Therapeutic Realism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” DAI 61/10 (2001): 4001-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2001)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Tomso, Gregory. “The Hidden Self: Illness and Sexual Aesthetics in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” DAI 63/09 (2003): 3198-A. (Doct. diss., Duke University, 2001)
Literature (relations to science)	Tuttle, Jennifer Shannon. “Empire of Sickness: Literary Professionals and Medical Discourse in the Age of American Nervousness, 1869-1911.” DAI 57/06 (1996): 2484-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, San Diego, 1996)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Weinstein, Sheri Michele. “Mechanical Spirits, Magical Bodies: Spiritualism and Technologies of the Real in American Literature, 1850–1910.” DAI 61/09 (2001): 3574-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New York, Buffalo, 2000)
Literature (relations to science)	Welsh, Susan B. “Edgar Allan Poe and the Rhetoric of Science.” DAI 47/10 (1987): 3760-A. (Doct. diss., Drew University, 1986)
Literature (relations to science)	Williams, Richard R. “The Fourth Point: Representations of 19th Century Electromagnetic Phenomena from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephanie Mallarme.” DAI 53/08 (1993): 2806-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas-Austin, 1992)
Literature (relations to science)	Wilson, Eric. Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space. 169pp. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Wilson, Eric. Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination. 278pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Worden, Joel Daniel. “The Galapagos in American Consciousness: American Fiction Writers’ Responses to Darwinism.” DAI 66/07 (2006): 2582-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 2005)
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Yandell, Kay Ann. “Divine Telegraphy: How Telecommunication Shaped Gender, Ethnicity, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” DAI 65/04 (2004): 1375-A. (Doct. diss., Cornell University, 2004)
Literature (relations to science)	Yu, Daesik. “The Literary Response to Evolutionism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America.” DAI 44/04 (1983): 1089-A. (Doct. diss., University of Washington, 1983)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Andola, John A. “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Use of Mesmerism in Four Major Works.” DAI 42/04 (1981): 1631-A. (Doct. diss., Ball State University, 1977)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Barnett, Thomas V. “William Bartram and the Age of Sensibility.” DAI 43/03 (1982): 799-A. (Doct. diss., Georgia State University, 1982)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Brown, Lee Rust. The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole. 285pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Cooper, Betsy M. “The Web of Relation: Science, Poetry, and the Emersonian Imagination.” DAI 50/04 (1989): 946-A. (Doct. diss., George Washington University, 1989)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Cummings, Sherwood. Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind. 224pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Davis, Robert Leigh. Whitman and the Romance of Medicine. 190 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Haronian, Mary-Jo. “Language Experiment: Science, Gender, and Discourse in the Works of Margaret Fuller.” DAI 59/04 (1998): 1165-A. (Doct. diss., City University of New York, 1998)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Kearns, Michael S. “Anatomy of the Mind: Mid-19th Century Psychology and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.” DAI 41/06 (1980): 2613-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Davis, 1980)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Limon, John K. “Imagining Science: The Influence and Metamorphosis of Science in Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.” DAI 42/12 (1982): 5122-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Berkeley, 1981)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Marston, Jane E. “The Influence of Evolution on the Fiction of William Dean Howells.” DAI 42/04 (1981): 1636-A. (Doct. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1981)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Neal, Valerie S. “Transcendental Optics: Science, Vision, and Imagination in the Works of Emerson and Thoreau.” DAI 40/02 (1979): 857-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 1979)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Otter, Samuel. Melville’s Anatomies. 369pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Piasecki, Bruce W. “Walt Whitman and the American Estimate of Nature: A Study in the Rhetoric of Environmental Reform.” DAI 42/04 (1981): 1639-A. (Doct. Diss., Cornell University, 1981)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Rashid, Frank D. “Minor Nations: Emily Dickinson and the Entomological.” DAI 42/03 (1981): 1152-A. (Doct. diss., University of Detroit, 1980)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Rice, Fredrica D. “Emerson’s Debt to Natural Science during His Early Life and Work.” DAI 45/02 (1984): 521-A. (Doct. diss., University of Washington, 1984)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Rossi, William J. “‘Laboratory of the Artist’: Henry Thoreau’s Literary and Scientific Use of the Journal, 1848-1854.” DAI 47/08 (1987): 3040-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 1986)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Saucerman, James Ray. “The Influence of Sir Charles Lyell on Emerson’s Use of Geologic Imagery.” DAI 38/10 (1978): 6133-A. (Doct. diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1977)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Smith, Richard Dean. Melville’s Complaint: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Herman Melville. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1309). 213pp New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Smith, Richard Dean. Melville’s Science: “Devilish Tantalization of the Gods!”. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1710. Garland Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 3 ). 340pp. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.
LITERATURE (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE): Biographical	Walls, Laura Dassow. Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. 280pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Walls, Laura Dassow. “Seeing New Worlds: The Consilience of Emersonian Wholes and Humboldtian Science in Henry David Thoreau.” DAI 53/09 (1993): 3217-A. (Doct. diss., Indiana University, 1992)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Wilson, Eric. “Emerson’s Sublime Science.” DAI 57/10 (1997): 4374-A. (Doct. diss., City University of New York, 1996)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Wilson, Eric. Emerson’s Sublime Science. (Romanticism in perspective). 204pp. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Zimmerman, Brett. “The Uranic Muse: Astronomy, Melville, and His Contemporaries.” DAI 49/12 (1989): 3727-A. (Doct. diss., York University, Canada, 1988)
Literature (relations to science): Biographical	Zimmerman, Brett. Herman Melville: Stargazer. 142pp. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.
[Bibliography main page] Mammalogy
SUBJECT	CITATION
MAMMALOGY: Biographical	Boehme, Sarah E., with others. John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition: Mammals of North America. 199pp. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2000.
[Bibliography main page] Management (Scientific)
SUBJECT	CITATION
Management (scientific): Biographical	Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. (The Sloan technology series). 675 pp. New York: Viking, 1997.
Management (scientific): Biographical	Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. 259pp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.
Management (scientific): Biographical	Spender, J.-C. and Hugo J. Kijne, editors. Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Gift to the World? 191pp. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1996.
Management (scientific): Biographical	Wrege, Charles D. and Ronald G. Greenwood. Frederick W. Taylor: The Father of Scientific Management: Myth and Reality. 286pp. Homewood, Ill.: Business One Irwin, 1991.
[Bibliography main page] Mathematics
SUBJECT	CITATION
MATHEMATICS	Brady, Geraldine. From Peirce to Skolem: A Neglected Chapter in the History of Logic. (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 4). 468pp. Amsterdam / New York: North-Holland/Elsevier Science BV, 2000.
Mathematics	Campbell, Marlene L. “Education and Mathematics in the United States, 1607-1977: A Brief History.” DAI 39/10 (1979): 6003-A. (Doct. diss., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1978)
Mathematics	Cohen, Patricia Cline. A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. 272pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Mathematics	Duren, Peter, editor. A Century of Mathematics in America. (History of Mathematics 1-3). 3 vols. (477 + 585+ 675pp.). Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1988.
Mathematics	Ewing, John H., editor. A Century of Mathematics: Through the Eyes of the Monthly. 323pp. [Washington, D.C.]: Mathematical Association of America, 1994.
MATHEMATICS	Grier, David Alan. When Computers Were Human. 411pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
MATHEMATICS	Kurz, Christopher A. N. “Mathematics Education for the Deaf in the United States: A Historical Analysis of the Nineteenth Century.” DAI 67/04 (2006): 1252-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kansas, 2006)
MATHEMATICS	Timmons, William Todd. “Building the Foundation for an American Mathematical Community: The Bowditch Generation, 1800-1838.” DAI 63/02 (2002): 732-A. (Doct. diss., University of Oklahoma, 2002)
Mathematics	Weber, Ralph E. Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900. (United States Cryptology History Series 1: Pre-World War I, vol. 1). 236pp. Fort George G. Mead, Md.: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 1993.
Mathematics: Biographical	Bedini, Silvio A. The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science. 2nd ed., revised and expanded. 428pp. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999.
MATHEMATICS: Biographical	Cunsolo, Ronald Charles. “Nathaniel Bowditch: A Biographical Study of the Social Uses of Mathematics.” DAI 63/04 (2002): 1515-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001)
Mathematics: Biographical	Historia Mathematica 9, no. 3 (August 1982): 263-341. (Special issue devoted to Charles Sanders Peirce)
Mathematics: Biographical	Houser, Nathan. “Peirce’s Algebra of Logic and the Law of Distribution.” DAI 47/05 (1986): 1751-A. (Doct. diss., University of Waterloo, 1986)
MATHEMATICS: Biographical	Kent, Deborah Anne. “Benjamin Peirce and the Promotion of Research-Level Mathematics in America, 1830-1880.” DAI 66/09 (2006): 3436-A. (Doct. diss., University of Virginia, 2005)
Mathematics: Biographical	Levy, Stephen H. “A Comparative Analysis of Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Mathematics.” DAI 43/01 (1982): 185-A. (Doct. diss., Fordham University, 1982)
Mathematics: Biographical	Parshall, Karen Hunger and David E. Rowe. The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900: J.J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E.H. Moore. (History of Mathematics, v. 8). 500pp. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society; [London]: London Mathematical Society, 1994.
MATHEMATICS: Biographical	Parshall, Karen Hunger. James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World. 461pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Mathematics: Biographical	Parshall, Karen Hunger. James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters. 321pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
MATHEMATICS: Biographical	Pipes, Richard. The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. 153pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. (Sergei Degaev [1857-1921] later taught mathematics at the University of South Dakota under the name Alexander Pell [Isis CB 2005])
Mathematics: Biographical	Shields, Paul B. “Charles S. Peirce on the Logic of Number.” DAI 41/12 (1981): 5134-A. (Doct. diss., Fordham University, 1981)
MATHEMATICS: Biographical	Willgoose, James Edward. “What the Mathematical Poet Must Abide By: Epistemological Aspects of Charles Peirce’s Philosophy of Mathematics.” DAI 64/03 (2003): 938-A. (Doct. diss., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2002)
Mathematics: Sources (archival)	Montgomery, James W., Jr. and Laura V. Monti, organizers and editors. The Papers of Nathaniel Bowditch in the Boston Public Library. 14 microfilm rolls, and printed Guide to the Microfilm Edition. Boston, Mass.: Boston Public Library, 1983.