Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / Martin Willis.

Literature, science, and science fiction
E.T.A. Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism
Mary Shelley's electric imagination
The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe
Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research
H.G. Wells in the laboratory
Conclusion : the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.