Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

lt;p>Alexis Harley lectures in literary studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of Autobiologies: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self. She has kept honeybees since 2012. 

Christopher Harrington teaches literary studies at Victoria University in Melbourne. He has published numerous articles on the representation of bees and insects in literature.

Chapter 1. Introduction: honey, wax, pollination Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University.- Chapter 2. "Science and the Sacred Honeybee in the Nineteenth Century" Diane M. Rodgers, Northern Illinois University.- Chapter 3. "Housewives and Old Wives: sex and superstition in English Beekeeping" Adam Ebert, Mount Mercy University.- Chapter 4. "Unsettling Homes": Honeybees, Georgiana Molloy and Colonial Beekeeping in Australia Jessica White, University of Adelaide.- Chapter 5. "The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper": Bee Poetry in the Oracle and World Claire Knowles, La Trobe University.- Chapter 6. "A Nineteenth-Century Beeography: Lucy Peacock's The Life of a Bee Related by Herself (1800)" Samantha George, University of Hertfordshire.- Chapter 7. "Keats's Honeybees:  Sound, Passion, and Natural Prophecy" Hermione de Almeida, Universityof Tulsa.-Chapter 8. "Bumblebees and Emily Dickinson" Camilla Chen, Oxford University.- Chapter 9. A Hive Turned Upside Down: Drone Bees and the Chartist Imaginary Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University.- Chapter 10. "Through the Agency of Bees": Charles Darwin, John Lubbock, and the Secret Lives of Plants and People" Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan.- Chapter 11. "Queens and Drones in Thomas Hardy's Wessex" Alexis Harley, La Trobe University.- Chapter 12. "The Experimental Eminence of Darwin's Bees" John Clark, St Andrews University.