Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century: A Journey of Imperial Conquest and Scientific Progress

Catherine Delmas is a professor of British literature at Stendhal University-Grenoble 3. Her PhD and field of research are about Western modes of representation of the Orient in 19th and 20th century fiction and travelbooks, as well as orientalist and (anti)imperialist discourse in the colonial and postcolonial era. She has published several papers on Joseph Conrad, T.E. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, E.M.Forster, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Ondaatje, J.M. Coetzee in various periodicals and collective works. She is the author of Ecritures du desert: voyageurs et romanciers anglophones XIXe XXe siecles (Writing the Desert from Burton to Ondaatje) Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2005, and co-edited a book on History-Stories of India with Professor Chitra Krishnan (Delhi: Macmillan India, 2008). Donna Spalding Andreolle is a professor of American studies at Stendhal University-Grenoble 3 (France) where she teaches American history courses as well as seminars on the popular culture. Her research centers on 'low-brow' cultural objects as sites of social commentary as well as on representations of scientific progress in science fiction novels and Hollywood productions since the mid-twentieth century. Some of her most recent publications include the article in this book; "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Spaces of Entrapment in Big Love"; "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus? A Case Study of Some Radical Feminist Discourse in the 1970s." She is currently preparing a collection of articles with Veronique Molinari entitled Women in the Sciences, 17th century to Present. Christine Vandamme is a senior lecturer at Stendhal University, Grenoble 3, where she teaches British literature in the pre-modernist and modernist periods as well as postcolonial literature, notably that of Australia. She has published extensively on the representation of imperial space and its narratological as well as ideological and ethical implications, in Conrad's works but also in Patrick White's and David Malouf's fiction.