Heather Ellis is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She researches the cultural history of higher education, science and gender. She is the author of Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012) which was awarded the 2014 Kevin Brehony prize by the History of Education Society UK.

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• Introduction: The Man of Science as a Gendered Ideal.- 1. The Changing Public Image of the Man of Science, 1600-1830.- 2. New Masculine Heroes: Davy, Bacon and the Construction of the Gentleman-Scientist.- 3. 'An Effete World': Gendered Criticism and the British Association.- 4. Thomas Carlyle, the X-Club and the Hero as Man of Science.- 5. The Decline of the British Association? Marginalization, Masculinity and Marconi.- 6. Reuniting Theory and Practice: The Man of Science and the First World War.- Conclusion.

Heather Ellis is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She researches the cultural history of higher education, science and gender. She is the author of Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012) which was awarded the 2014 Kevin Brehony prize by the History of Education Society UK.

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• Introduction: The Man of Science as a Gendered Ideal.- 1. The Changing Public Image of the Man of Science, 1600-1830.- 2. New Masculine Heroes: Davy, Bacon and the Construction of the Gentleman-Scientist.- 3. 'An Effete World': Gendered Criticism and the British Association.- 4. Thomas Carlyle, the X-Club and the Hero as Man of Science.- 5. The Decline of the British Association? Marginalization, Masculinity and Marconi.- 6. Reuniting Theory and Practice: The Man of Science and the First World War.- Conclusion.

Heather Ellis is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She researches the cultural history of higher education, science and gender. She is the author of Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012) which was awarded the 2014 Kevin Brehony prize by the History of Education Society UK.

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• Introduction: The Man of Science as a Gendered Ideal.- 1. The Changing Public Image of the Man of Science, 1600-1830.- 2. New Masculine Heroes: Davy, Bacon and the Construction of the Gentleman-Scientist.- 3. 'An Effete World': Gendered Criticism and the British Association.- 4. Thomas Carlyle, the X-Club and the Hero as Man of Science.- 5. The Decline of the British Association? Marginalization, Masculinity and Marconi.- 6. Reuniting Theory and Practice: The Man of Science and the First World War.- Conclusion.