The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain

It is a solid book: following an expansive, though-provoking introduction by Martin Daunton, seventeen essays range across a spectrum of institutions, disciplines, geographies of diffusion, and modes of validation ... a valuable and shrewd collection: much knowledge, well organized. David S. Karr, History Journal

• IntroductionScience in nineteenth-century England: plural configurations and singular politicsClassifying sciences: systematics and status in mid-Victorian natural historyVictorian social science: from singular to pluralPolitical economy and the science of economics in Victorian BritainReason and belief in Victorian mathematicsVictorian classics: sustaining the study of the ancient worldThe evolution and dissemination of historical knowledgeSpecialization and social utility: disciplining English studiesThe organization of literary knowledge: the study of English in the late nineteenth century'Old studies and new': the organization of knowledge in university curriculumThe promotion and constraints of knowledge: the changing structure of publishing in Victorian BritainLibraries, knowledge and public identityMeasuring the world: exploration, empire and the reform of the Royal Geographical Society, 1874-93Civic cultures and civic colleges in Victorian EnglandIntimacy, imagination and the inner dialetics of knowledge communities: the Synthetic Society, 1896-1908The Academy abroad: the nineteenth-century origin of the British School at AthensThe strange late birth of the British Academy