Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2

Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonanthan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V. Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick

• PART I Volume 2 Victorian Science as Cultural Authority Introduction Science as a Source of Cultural Authority [William Whewell], Review of John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse non the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831) Hugh Miller, ‘Stromness and its Asterolepis’ and ‘The Development Hypothesis, and its Consequences’ (1851) Herbert Spencer, ‘The Social Organism’ (1860) Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge’ (1866) John Ruskin, ‘Athena Keramitis’ (1903) George Henry Lewes, ‘On the Dread and Dislike of Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of Theology’ (1878) Arthur James Balfour, A Defence of Philosophical Doubt, being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879) Frances Power Cobbe, ‘The Scientific Spirit of the Age’ (1888) Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1900) [Mona Caird], The Sanctuary of Mercy (1892) Science Lending New Cultural Authority to an Existing Field Baden Powell, The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth; or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy Considered as Subservient to Theology (1838) James Cowles Prichard, ‘On the Relations of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge’ (1848) Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (1874) Henry Maudsley, ‘An Address on Medical Psychology’ (1872) William Kingdon Clifford, ‘Right and Wrong, the Scientific Ground of their Distinction’ (1875) Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait, The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1878) Vernon Lee, ‘Apollo the Fiddler: A Chapter on Artistic Anachronism’ (1882) Francis Galton, ‘Measurement of Character’ (1884) Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1916) Pro-Science and Anti-Science Satire or Parody Punch; or, the London Charivari Benjamin Bendigo, pseud. [William M. Thackeray], ‘Science at Cambridge’ (1848) J. L. [ John Leech], ‘H.R.H. Field-Marshall Chancellor Prince Albert Taking the Pons Asinorum’ (1848) ‘Unnatural Selection and Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be Read at our Social Science Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-Hour or so with Darwin)’ (1860 ) ‘Punch’s Scientific Register’ (1864) Psychosis, Our Modern Philosophers: Darwin, Bain and Spencer; or, The Descent of Man, Mind and Body (1884) [William Cosmo Monkhouse], The Automaton: A Comedy in Tree Acts (n.d.) May Kendall ‘Taking Long Views’ and ‘The Conquering Machine’ (1887) ‘Ether Insatiable’ (1894) Worlds that Project (or Contest) the Cultural Authority of Science Coventry Patmore, ‘The Two Desarts’ (1878) [Algernon Charles Swinburne], ‘Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue’ (1881) Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower: A Romance (1883) James Clerk Maxwell, ‘To Hermann Stoffkraft , Ph.D., the Hero of a Recent Work called “Paradoxical Philosophy.” A Paradoxical Ode. [After Shelley]’ (1884) Grant Allen, ‘The Child of the Phalanstery’ (1884) Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ (1885) Israel Zangwill, ‘The Memory Clearing House’ (1892) Editorial Notes