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This collection explores the richness of Scottish intellectual life, its currents and controversies, from the French Revolution to the First World War, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Offering a series of cutting-edge interventions, the contributors cast light on a range of individuals, themes and episodes from the period. Topics range from the role of women as intellectuals to the rise of a science of race, and from freethinking secularism to the debate over George Davie's influential account of 19th-century universities. Collectively, the chapters represent a pioneering overview of Scottish intellectual life during the long 19th century.
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced
publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of
publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were
intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith
were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full
repertoire of evangelical techniques--low prices, simple language,
carefully structured narratives--to convert their readers. The
application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one
of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences
in the Victorian era.
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science,
when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries
with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time
when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the
opportunity to participate in science, for education,
entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be
encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in
panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and
country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic
conversations that revolved around the latest books and
periodicals.
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