Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain | 
pickFinished paper 1 at 2 am
& now I sit here yet again
to write another line and verse;
I hope this essay isn‘t worse
than this poem.
I‘m halfway through comps exams & enjoying the heck out of the process even if I am tired. Today I get to write about microscopic worlds, affective ecocriticism, & The Secret Garden.
Highly recommend the tagged book even if you are not writing for scholarship. It‘s so cool! This illustration is one of my favorites🧚
so-soA lot of other reviews of this university press book note how dense or dry it is and how many times the author uses the word “quotidian.” While it could have been more engagingly written and discussed the greater meaning and relevance behind this trend of Victorian writers using fairy tales to teach introductory science, this is a great survey of the primary material and works magnificently as a reference to rediscovering these books.
