Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram. Published between 1976 and 2019 and scattered in a variety of journals and collected volumes, these articles are published together here for the first time. During her distinguished career, Outram has made significant contributions to the history of science, to the history and historiography of the Enlightenment, to gender history, to the history of geographical exploration, and to the historical uses of language. This volume also includes other writings by Outram, comprising an…mehr
Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram. Published between 1976 and 2019 and scattered in a variety of journals and collected volumes, these articles are published together here for the first time. During her distinguished career, Outram has made significant contributions to the history of science, to the history and historiography of the Enlightenment, to gender history, to the history of geographical exploration, and to the historical uses of language. This volume also includes other writings by Outram, comprising an unpublished introduction in the form of an intellectual autobiography. Placing this together with her collected academic papers offers readers an overview of her development as an historian and a writer. This book is important reading for scholars and students of early modern Europe, as well as those interested in the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and gender studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dorinda Outram is Franklin I. and Gladys W. Clark Chair of History Emerita at the University of Rochester, USA. She has taught in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Ireland and has held visiting positions in Paris, Göttingen and Berlin. She is the author of many works, including most recently Four Fools in the Age of Reason: Laughter, Cruelty and Power in Early Modern Germany (2019) and a fourth edition of The Enlightenment (2019).
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Introduction 1. 'Education and Politics in Piedmont 1796-1814' Historical Journal 19 (1976) 611-33 2. 'The Language of Natural Power: The Eloges of Georges Cuvier and the Public Language of Nineteenth-Century Science' History of Science 16 (1978) 153-178 3. 'Politics and Vocation: French Science 1793-1830' British Journal for the History of Science 13 (1980) 27-43 4. 'The Ordeal of Vocation: The Paris Academy of Sciences and the French Revolutionary Terror 1793-1795' History of Science 21 (1983) 251-73 5. 'Before Objectivity: Wives Patronage and Cultural Reproduction in early Nineteenth-Century French Science' in Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram (eds.) Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1972 (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press 1987) 19-30 6. "'Le langage mâle de la vertu': Women and the Discourse of the French Revolution' in Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.) The Social History of Language (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1987) 120-135 7. 'Life-paths: Autobiography Science and the French Revolution' in Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (eds.) Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1996) 85-102 8. 'New Spaces in Natural History' in N. Jardine J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary (eds.) Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge and New York 1996) 249-265 9. 'On Being Perseus: New Knowledge Dislocation and Enlightenment Exploration' in David N Livingstone and Charles WJ Withers (eds.) Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press 1999) 281-294 10. 'The Enlightenment our Contemporary' in William Clark Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer (eds.) The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press 1999) 32-40 11. 'Heavenly Bodies and Logical Minds: John Banville's Astronomical Novels' in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.) Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 2004) 19-25 12. 'Negating the Natural: or why Historians Deny Irish Science' in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.) Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 2004) 27-31 13. 'Enlightenment Struggles' in C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin (eds.) Interpreting Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Routledge 2019) 417-38.
Introduction 1. 'Education and Politics in Piedmont 1796-1814' Historical Journal 19 (1976) 611-33 2. 'The Language of Natural Power: The Eloges of Georges Cuvier and the Public Language of Nineteenth-Century Science' History of Science 16 (1978) 153-178 3. 'Politics and Vocation: French Science 1793-1830' British Journal for the History of Science 13 (1980) 27-43 4. 'The Ordeal of Vocation: The Paris Academy of Sciences and the French Revolutionary Terror 1793-1795' History of Science 21 (1983) 251-73 5. 'Before Objectivity: Wives Patronage and Cultural Reproduction in early Nineteenth-Century French Science' in Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram (eds.) Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1972 (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press 1987) 19-30 6. "'Le langage mâle de la vertu': Women and the Discourse of the French Revolution' in Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.) The Social History of Language (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1987) 120-135 7. 'Life-paths: Autobiography Science and the French Revolution' in Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (eds.) Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1996) 85-102 8. 'New Spaces in Natural History' in N. Jardine J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary (eds.) Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge and New York 1996) 249-265 9. 'On Being Perseus: New Knowledge Dislocation and Enlightenment Exploration' in David N Livingstone and Charles WJ Withers (eds.) Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press 1999) 281-294 10. 'The Enlightenment our Contemporary' in William Clark Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer (eds.) The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press 1999) 32-40 11. 'Heavenly Bodies and Logical Minds: John Banville's Astronomical Novels' in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.) Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 2004) 19-25 12. 'Negating the Natural: or why Historians Deny Irish Science' in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.) Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 2004) 27-31 13. 'Enlightenment Struggles' in C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin (eds.) Interpreting Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Routledge 2019) 417-38.
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