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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The natural history tradition; Chapter 2 The modern life sciences; Chapter 3 'To pin through the body with a name': Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition; Chapter 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature; Chapter 5 Representing 'the manner of our seeing': Literary experimentation and scientific analogy; Notes; Bibliography; Index