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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

Author : Louise Henson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946846
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media written by Louise Henson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-century Media

Author : Louise Henson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-century Media written by Louise Henson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture throughout the period of the nineteenth-century. Scholars from a number of different disciplines contributed to this study.

Victorian Science and Imagery

Author : Nancy Rose Marshall
Publisher : Sci & Culture in the Nineteent
ISBN 13 : 9780822946533
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Science and Imagery written by Nancy Rose Marshall and published by Sci & Culture in the Nineteent. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories--such as Darwin's theory of evolution and sexual selection--deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.

Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities

Author : Laurel Brake
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349628859
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities written by Laurel Brake and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia. High culture rubs shoulders with the popular press, text with image, feminist periodicals and masculine, gay, and domestic serials. Theory and history combine in research by scholars of international repute.

In the Company of Books

Author : Sarah Wadsworth
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495418
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Books written by Sarah Wadsworth and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.

Anxious Times

Author : Amelia Bonea
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986604
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Anxious Times written by Amelia Bonea and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.

Science Museums in Transition

Author : Carin Berkowitz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982757
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Science Museums in Transition written by Carin Berkowitz and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226487296
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.

Seeing New Worlds

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299147436
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Seeing New Worlds written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau’s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how, just when literature and science were splitting into the “two cultures” we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing rift. Walls shows how his commitment to Alexander von Humboldt’s scientific approach resulted in not only his “marriage” of poetry and science but also his distinctively patterned nature studies. In the first critical study of his “The Dispersion of Seeds” since its publication in 1993, she exposes evidence that Thoreau was using Darwinian modes of reasoning years before the appearance of Origin of Species. This book offers a powerful argument against the critical tradition that opposes a dry, mechanistic science to a warm, “organic” Romanticism. Instead, Thoreau’s experience reveals the complex interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day. Drawing on recent work in the theory and philosophy of science as well as literary history and theory, Seeing New Worlds bridges today’s “two cultures” in hopes of stimulating a fuller consideration of representations of nature.

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

Author : C. Sumpter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227643
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale written by C. Sumpter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521049788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

Supernatural Entertainments

Author : Simone Natale
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077379
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Entertainments written by Simone Natale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112076
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audience both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.

Membranes

Author : Laura Otis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801865275
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Membranes written by Laura Otis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying the traditional boundary between science and the humanities, she concludes by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.

The Savant and the State

Author : Robert Fox
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421405229
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Savant and the State written by Robert Fox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.

Moving Images

Author : Helen Groth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Moving Images written by Helen Groth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind.

Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines

Author : Martin Willis
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873388573
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines written by Martin Willis and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using key canonical science fiction narratives, 'Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines' examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the 19th century.