Dr David Stack is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Reading. His work is largely concerned with the interrelationship of science, politics and culture in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The First Darwinian Left.

'This is an interesting insight into the minds of intelligent Victorians.' BBC History Magazine, October 2008

• Introduction; 1 Writing Combe's Life; 2 'Toots, laddie'; 3 The Old Philosophy and the New; 4 Combe's Development; 5 'The rascal' and his 'willing pupil'; 6 Combe's Constitution; 7 What the Actress said to the Phrenologist; 8 Cecilia, the Scientist's Wife; 9 Combe in the USA: Quackery, Commercialism and the Civic Ideal; 10 Heidelberg, Haemorrhoids and Health; 11 Italy and Art; 12 Educating Albert; 13 The New Philosophy; 14 Respectable Radicalism: George Eliot and Mesmerism; 15 Racial Science and Racial Politics; 16 God's Secular Providence.

Dr David Stack is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Reading. His work is largely concerned with the interrelationship of science, politics and culture in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The First Darwinian Left.

'This is an interesting insight into the minds of intelligent Victorians.' BBC History Magazine, October 2008

• Introduction; 1 Writing Combe's Life; 2 'Toots, laddie'; 3 The Old Philosophy and the New; 4 Combe's Development; 5 'The rascal' and his 'willing pupil'; 6 Combe's Constitution; 7 What the Actress said to the Phrenologist; 8 Cecilia, the Scientist's Wife; 9 Combe in the USA: Quackery, Commercialism and the Civic Ideal; 10 Heidelberg, Haemorrhoids and Health; 11 Italy and Art; 12 Educating Albert; 13 The New Philosophy; 14 Respectable Radicalism: George Eliot and Mesmerism; 15 Racial Science and Racial Politics; 16 God's Secular Providence.

Dr David Stack is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Reading. His work is largely concerned with the interrelationship of science, politics and culture in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The First Darwinian Left.

'This is an interesting insight into the minds of intelligent Victorians.' BBC History Magazine, October 2008

• Introduction; 1 Writing Combe's Life; 2 'Toots, laddie'; 3 The Old Philosophy and the New; 4 Combe's Development; 5 'The rascal' and his 'willing pupil'; 6 Combe's Constitution; 7 What the Actress said to the Phrenologist; 8 Cecilia, the Scientist's Wife; 9 Combe in the USA: Quackery, Commercialism and the Civic Ideal; 10 Heidelberg, Haemorrhoids and Health; 11 Italy and Art; 12 Educating Albert; 13 The New Philosophy; 14 Respectable Radicalism: George Eliot and Mesmerism; 15 Racial Science and Racial Politics; 16 God's Secular Providence.