Dorinda Outram

Science, Enlightenment and Revolution

Selected Papers, 1976-2019

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Produktbeschreibung

Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram. It 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781032064543
• ISBN-10: 1032064544
• Artikelnr.: 68711737

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.