Historicism And The Human Sciences In Victorian Britain

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Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316738949
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain written by Mark Bevir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race, character, literature, language, economics, empire, and law. The contributors show that the Victorians typically understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to their intellectual inquiries and their public culture. Although their historicist ideas drew on some Enlightenment themes, they drew at least as much on organic ideas and metaphors in ways that lent them a developmental character. This developmental historicism flourished alongside evolutionary motifs and romantic ideas of the self. The human sciences were approached through narratives, and often narratives of reason and progress. Life, individuals, society, government, and literature all unfolded gradually in accord with underlying principles, such as those of rationality, nationhood, and liberty. This book will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.

Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166683
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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The Science of History in Victorian Britain

Author : Ian Hesketh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322967
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Science of History in Victorian Britain written by Ian Hesketh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

Science in Victorian Manchester

Author : Robert Hugh Kargon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007019
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Science in Victorian Manchester written by Robert Hugh Kargon and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mesmerized

Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226902197
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Mesmerized written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" 6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions 7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain 8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India9: Emanations from the Sickroom 10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls 11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science 12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus Conclusion: The Day after the Feast Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263266
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain written by Martin Daunton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.

The Myth of Disenchantment

Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640336X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Disenchantment written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.

Modernism and the Social Sciences

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107173965
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Social Sciences written by Mark Bevir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology.

Victorian Science and Imagery

Author : Nancy Rose Marshall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987996
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Science and Imagery written by Nancy Rose Marshall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 338 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.

The Victorian Reinvention of Race

Author : Edward Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136924000
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Reinvention of Race written by Edward Beasley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the central focus of The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences. Scholars have linked this new racism to some very dodgy thinkers. The Victorian Reinvention of Race examines a more influential set of the era's writers and colonial officials, some French but most of them British. Attempting to do serious social analysis, these men oversimplified humanity into biologically-heritable, mentally and morally unequal, colour-based 'races'. Thinkers giving in to this racist temptation included Alexis de Tocqueville when he was writing on Algeria; Arthur de Gobineau (who influenced the Nazis); Walter Bagehot of The Economist; and Charles Darwin (whose Descent of Man was influenced by Bagehot). Victorians on Race also examines officials and thinkers (such as Tocqueville in Democracy in America, the Duke of Argyll, and Governor Gordon of Fiji) who exercised methodological care, doing the hard work of testing their categories against the evidence. They analyzed human groups without slipping into racial categorization. Author Edward Beasley examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. He further explores the hardening of the rhetoric of race-prejudice in some quarters in England in the nineteenth century – the processes by which racism was first formed.

History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Author : Callum Barrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519074
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865 written by Callum Barrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete account of the utilitarians' historical thought, from which emerge new interpretations of their philosophy and politics.

God and Progress

Author : Joshua Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192574760
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book God and Progress written by Joshua Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progressive ideas of history transformed British Protestant traditions, as religious debate, in turn, profoundly shaped Victorian ideas of history. It adopts a remarkably wide contextual perspective, embracing believers and unbelievers, Anglicans and nonconformists, and writers from different parts of the British Isles, fully situating British debates in relation to their European and especially German Idealist surroundings. The Victorian intellectual mainstream came to terms with religious diversity, changing ethical sensibilities, and new kinds of knowledge by encouraging providential, spiritualized, and developmental understandings of human time. A secular counter-culture simultaneously disturbed this complex consensus, grounding progress in appeals to scientific advances and the retreat of metaphysics. God and Progress thus explores the ways in which divisions within British liberalism were fundamentally related to differences over the past, present, and future of religion. It also demonstrates that religious debate powered the process by which historicism acquired cultural authority in Victorian national life, and later began to lose it. The study reconstructs the ways in which theological dynamics, often relegated to the margins of nineteenth-century British intellectual history, effectively forged its leading patterns.

Historicizing Humans

Author : Efram Sera-Shriar
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986078
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Historicizing Humans written by Efram Sera-Shriar and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity’s past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.

Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320441
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 written by Roger Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing

Author : Marilyn Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663146X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing written by Marilyn Fischer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots. Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts—from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. By excavating Addams’s evolutionary reasoning and rhetorical strategies, Fischer reveals the depth, subtlety, and richness of Addams’s thought.

Waiting for the People

Author : Nazmul Sultan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674290372
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the People written by Nazmul Sultan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.

The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Author : Alice Mauger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319652443
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland written by Alice Mauger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its causes, and patient experiences, were influenced by these concepts. The strong emphasis on land and its interconnectedness with notions of class identity and respectability in Ireland lends a particularly interesting dimension. The book interrogates the popular notion that relatives were routinely locked away to be deprived of land or inheritance, querying how often “land grabbing” Irish families really abused the asylum system for their personal economic gain. The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.