Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical
and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched
divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today
seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of
modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of
Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking
and answering a series of deceptively simple questions: how did
Victorians define a discipline; what factors impinged upon that
definition; and how did they respond to disciplinary understanding?
Structured around sections on professionalization, university
curriculums, society journals, literary genres and
interdisciplinarity, Victorian Culture and the Origin of
Disciplines addresses the tangled bank of disciplinarity in the
arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences including
musicology, dance, literature, and art history; classics, history,
archaeology, and theology; anthropology, psychology; and biology,
mathematics and physics. Chapters examine the generative forces
driving disciplinary formation, and gauge its success or failure
against social, cultural, political, and economic environmental
pressures. No other volume has focused specifically on the origin
of Victorian disciplines in order to track the birth, death, and
growth of the units into which knowledge was divided in this
period, and no other volume has placed such a wide array of
Victorian disciplines in their cultural context.
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