Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain – Thoughts on a Contentious Relationship 1
6. Part I – Reading: Electricity, Medicine
7. 1. Facts Are What One Makes of Them: Constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and Early German Romanticism 33
8. 2. The Competing Structures of Signification in Samuel Hahnemann’s Homeopathy: Between 18th-Century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics 50
9. Part II – Imagining: Botany, Chemistry, Thermodynamics
10. 3. “She comes! – the GODDESS!”: Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden 73
11. 4. Elective Affinities / Wahlverwandtschaften: The Career of a Metaphor 97
12. 5. Physics Disarmed: Probabilistic Knowledge in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot 130
13. Part III – Sensing: Anthropology, Psychology, Aesthetics
14. 6. Herder’s Unsettling of the Distinction between Fact and Fiction 155
15. 7. Fictional Feedback: Empirical Souls and Self-Deception in the Magazine for Empirical Psychology and Beyond 175
16. 8. Fictional Feelings: Psychological Aesthetics and the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure 199
17. Part IV – Relating: Biology
18. 9. Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion 221
19. 10. Kin Selection, Mendel’s “Salutary Principle,” and the Fate of Characters in Forster’s The Longest Journey 247
20. Part V – Displaying: Scientific Collections
21. 11. Anatomy Collections in and of the Mind: Science, the Body, and Language in the Writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche 275
22. 12. Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-century German Exhibition Culture 298
23. Contributors 333
24. Index 337