An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick and Martin Willis
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Notes on Contributors; 1. Margins and Centres; Section I: Shifted Centres: 2. 'Speakers Concerning the Earth': Ruskin's Geology After 1860; 3. Simming at the Edges of Scientific Respectability: Sea Serpents in the Victorian Era; 4. 'The Drugs, the Blister and the Lancet are all Laid Aside': Hydropathy and Medical Orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900; 5. Anna Kingsford: Scientist and Sorceress; 6. A Science for One or a Science for All? Physiognomy, Self-Help, and the Practical Benefits of Science; Section II: Contested Knowledges: 7. 'Supposed DIfferences': Lydia Becker and Victorian Women's Participation in the BAAS; 8. A Fair Trial for Spiritualism?: Fighting Dirty in the Pall Mall Gazette; 9. 'This is Ours and For Us': The Mechanic's Magazine and Low Scientific Culture in Regency London; 10. How did the Conservation of Energy Become 'The Highest Law in All Science'?; 11. 'Scriptural Geology', Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Contested Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Science; 12. 'This House is a Temple of Research': Country-House Centres for Late Victorian Science; Section III: Entering the Modern: 13. Fresnel's Particular Waves: Models of Light as Catalytic Modes of Worldmaking in Early Modern Times; 14. Re-imagining Heaven: Victorian Lunar Studies and the Anxiety of Loneliness; 15. 'You Should Get Your Head Examined': Freudian Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Nineteenth-Century Science; 16. Scholars, Scientists and Sexual Inverts: Authority and Sexology in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 17. Unmasking Immorality: Popular Opposition to Laboratory Science in Late Victorian Britain; Notes; Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors; 1. Margins and Centres; Section I: Shifted Centres: 2. 'Speakers Concerning the Earth': Ruskin's Geology After 1860; 3. Simming at the Edges of Scientific Respectability: Sea Serpents in the Victorian Era; 4. 'The Drugs, the Blister and the Lancet are all Laid Aside': Hydropathy and Medical Orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900; 5. Anna Kingsford: Scientist and Sorceress; 6. A Science for One or a Science for All? Physiognomy, Self-Help, and the Practical Benefits of Science; Section II: Contested Knowledges: 7. 'Supposed DIfferences': Lydia Becker and Victorian Women's Participation in the BAAS; 8. A Fair Trial for Spiritualism?: Fighting Dirty in the Pall Mall Gazette; 9. 'This is Ours and For Us': The Mechanic's Magazine and Low Scientific Culture in Regency London; 10. How did the Conservation of Energy Become 'The Highest Law in All Science'?; 11. 'Scriptural Geology', Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Contested Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Science; 12. 'This House is a Temple of Research': Country-House Centres for Late Victorian Science; Section III: Entering the Modern: 13. Fresnel's Particular Waves: Models of Light as Catalytic Modes of Worldmaking in Early Modern Times; 14. Re-imagining Heaven: Victorian Lunar Studies and the Anxiety of Loneliness; 15. 'You Should Get Your Head Examined': Freudian Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Nineteenth-Century Science; 16. Scholars, Scientists and Sexual Inverts: Authority and Sexology in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 17. Unmasking Immorality: Popular Opposition to Laboratory Science in Late Victorian Britain; Notes; Select Bibliography
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