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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 spectrum of
periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and
Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural',
'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and
Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays
offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent
and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations
between science and the nineteenth-century media.
A powerful reimagining of the world in which a young Charles Darwin
developed his theory of evolution. When Charles Darwin returned to
Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about
scientific books of the day were the Bridgewater Treatises. This
series of eight works was funded by a bequest of the last Earl of
Bridgewater and written by leading men of science appointed by the
president of the Royal Society to explore "the Power, Wisdom, and
Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation." Securing public
attention beyond all expectations, the series offered Darwin's
generation a range of approaches to one of the great questions of
the age: how to incorporate the newly emerging disciplinary
sciences into Britain's overwhelmingly Christian culture. Drawing
on a wealth of archival and published sources, including many
unexplored by historians, Jonathan R. Topham examines how and to
what extent the series contributed to a sense of congruence between
Christianity and the sciences in the generation before the fabled
Victorian conflict between science and religion. Building on the
distinctive insights of book history and paying close attention to
the production, circulation, and use of the books, Topham offers
new perspectives on early Victorian science and the subject of
science and religion as a whole.
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 spectrum of
periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and
Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural',
'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and
Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays
offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent
and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations
between science and the nineteenth-century media.
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 in local natural history
clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific
discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their
geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by
facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information.
As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of
scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set
the historical exploration of the scientific and medical
periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise
function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and
enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of
science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific
journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the
sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light
on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of
scientific journals.
This volume includes many letters previously unpublished, and chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy and filled with scientific queries and discussions relating to Darwin's transmutation theory. His love of botany and his expanding experimental program is well depicted by correspondence with professional botanists, horticulturalists, and hobbyists. Nine appendixes provide additional information from the Darwin Archive and from nineteenth-century publications. The letters also provide glimpses of life among the Victorian gentry and reveal the practical and emotional support Darwin received from his family.
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 reports,
fictional representations, or humorous attacks in comic magazines.
Ranging across diverse forms of periodicals, from top-selling
religious and juvenile magazines through to popular fiction-based
periodicals, and from the campaigning 'new journalism' of the late
century to the comic satire of Punch, this book explores the ways
in which scientific ideas and developments were presented to a
variety of Victorian audiences. In addition, it offers three case
studies of the representation of particular areas of science: 'baby
science', scientific biography, and electricity. This intriguing
collaborative volume sheds light on issues relating to history and
history of science, literature, book history, and cultural and
media studies.
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 reports,
fictional representations, or humorous attacks in comic magazines.
Ranging across diverse forms of periodicals, from top-selling
religious and juvenile magazines through to popular fiction-based
periodicals, and from the campaigning 'new journalism' of the late
century to the comic satire of Punch, this book explores the ways
in which scientific ideas and developments were presented to a
variety of Victorian audiences. In addition, it offers three case
studies of the representation of particular areas of science: 'baby
science', scientific biography, and electricity. This intriguing
collaborative volume sheds new light on issues relating to history
and history of science, literature, book history, and cultural and
media studies.
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