This eclectic general issue of Mosaic includes a range of topics and covers various periods, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The issue opens with an intriguing question about what literary criticism can learn from the scientific method and closes with a unique reading of Euripides’s Andromache. Other essays in the issue consider William Blake’s perspective on childhood education, Stanistlaw Lem’s critique of cybernetics, Charles Darwin and the Victorian novel form, love and magic in Faustus, and architecture in D.H. Lawrence.