Abstract
I examine the relationship between the representation of scientists in Victorian literature and history, and between nineteenth-century perceptions of Victorian scientists and modern views. The fictional scientist's traditional Faustian or Miltonic attributes are now balanced by a renewed sense of the uncertainty surrounding scientific activity, a perspective through which our views of the historical scientific figures are refracted. In both cases it is the failures (realised and potential) that we find most compelling.
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