As I will show, both the nature of Moreau's research and the style of his 'explanation'to
Prendick ally him to the great physiologists of the nineteenth century. It is only a subtle …

“Howled out of” England for his “wantonly cruel” experiments on animals, the eponymous
vivisector of HG Wells' gory 1896 work of science fiction, The Island of Dr. Moreau, sets up …

While the possibilities for scientific thought in nineteenth-century England seemed infinite,
the moral climate of the time could not be reconciled with the pursuit of knowledge by any …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, vivisection, a technology of evolutionary
biology, inspired debate regarding the limits of human connection with other species …

Anton Mesmer (1734–1815). That there were as many theories of mesmerism as there were
practitioners suggests at the Enlightenment threshold to Romanticism a fascination with …

Drs Moreau and Benjulia, the experimental physiologists of HG Wells' The Island of Doctor
Moreau (1896) and Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science (1883), push the moral boundaries of …

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU (1896) is a richly confused novel, and its complexities
and mixed agendas constitute one reason why this remarkable enactment of ideas and …

In Margaret Oliphant's 'Old Lady Mary'(1884) a doctor and a vicar argue about a child's
apparent vision of ghosts. Each is manoeuvring not to claim the phenomenon for his own …

In a note to his 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, HG Wells writes:“Strange as it may
seem to the unscientific reader, there can be no denying that, whatever amount of credibility …

Stoker's life provides a number of reasons for his fascination with science and technology.
Stoker was formally trained in science (he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1871 …