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38 produkter
Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Community, Identity, Continuity
Av Bernard Lightman, Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2014
450 kr
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists - …
Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Community, Identity, Continuity
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman
E-bok, 2014
1015 kr
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species , wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific …
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Av Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2016
467 kr
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as …
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Av Gowan Dawson
E-bok, 2016
1023 kr
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as …
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Constructing Scientific Communities
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
524 kr
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Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants …
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Constructing Scientific Communities
Av Jonathan R. Topham, Sally Shuttleworth m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1118 kr
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Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants …
Monkey to Man
The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
Av Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2024
395 kr
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The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved “Dawson wears his considerable learning and his deep research into previously underused archives lightly. He has written a wonderful book.”—Greg …
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Reading the Magazine of Nature
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific articles, but also by glancing asides in political …
Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
Av Gowan Dawson
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson contends that the fashioning of such respectability was by no …
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Reading the Magazine of Nature
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1872 kr
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For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific articles, but also by glancing asides in political …
Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
Av Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2007
1667 kr
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The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson contends that the fashioning of such respectability was by no …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3643 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 1
The Correspondence, May 1840–August 1843
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2016
2093 kr
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The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall's emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant with just a year's experience working on the Irish Ordnance Survey to his pseudonymous authorship of …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14
The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875
Av Gowan Dawson, Matthew Stanley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2282 kr
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The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. More notably, this volume spans the period of the composition, delivery, and furious reaction to Tyndall’s famous—or, more accurately, infamous—Belfast …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1016 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3448 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
910 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3088 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3524 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
890 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1016 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3524 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3448 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
930 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
788 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2831 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with …
