'Sciences' were named and formed with great speed in the nineteenth century. Yet what constitutes a 'true' science? The Victorian era facilitated the rise of practices such as phrenology and physiognomy, so-called sciences that lost their status and fell out of use rather swiftly. This collection of essays seeks to examine the marginalised sciences of the nineteenth century in an attempt to define the shifting centres of scientific thinking, specifically asking: how do some sciences emerge to occupy central ground and how do others become consigned to the margins? The essays in this collection explore the influence of nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences, investigating the emergence of marginal sciences such as scriptural geology and spiritualism. 'Repositioning Victorian Sciences' is a valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century science in its original context, and will also be of great interest to those studying the era as a whole.

English scholars from North America and Europe examine the expatriate Italian family of painters and poets in Victorian England. They consider Italy and Italianness, aesthetics in a commercial world, faith in an age of science, radical poetics, and literary tradition and the Rossetti legacy. The 16 essays are not indexed. Distributed in the US by S

One of the foremost literary and artistic families of the nineteenth century, the Rossettis had a striking impact upon the life and culture of the age. This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores their achievements in the context of the Victorian era and in the light of modern cultural and literary criticism."Outsiders Looking In" considers the position that the Anglo-Italian Rossettis occupied in the cultural melee of mid-Victorian London, a status that was both central and fringe owing to their dual nationality. The essays in this volume demonstrate how the family members -- from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and William -- drew upon a shared cultural experience, and describe how each contributed to the intellectual debates of the age and played a significant role in their various fields.Bringing together significant contributions from some of the most renowned experts in their fields, "Outsiders Looking In" provides important new perspectives on this multi-talented family and their brilliant legacy.

Shipwrecked on an uncharted island by a violent storm and abandoned by her friends could have meant profound loneliness for Tatara had it not been for a chance encounter with an alien visitor from the stars named John Wells. Gamma Station is a romantic tale about a man and woman who are drawn to a space station orbiting high above a planet in the far reaches of the galaxy where their association with one another soon evolves into true love. When she returns to the home of her family for a brief visit, denunciation as a heretic by the hierarchy thrusts Tatara into captivity and even threatens her life. With the power of modern science at his command, no lack of determination prevents John from using every means at his disposal to rescue the woman who is everything to him. Now a fugitive in her own country, Tatara escapes with John to find a new life among the distant stars.