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Author : John MILL (M.D.)
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Fossil Spirit; a Boy's Dream of Geology written by John MILL (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph O'Connor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226616703
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Earth on Show written by Ralph O'Connor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
Author : Melanie Keene
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019163963X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Science in Wonderland written by Melanie Keene and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop of water revealed a soup of monsters. Science in Wonderland explores how these stories were presented and read. Melanie Keene introduces and analyses a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales, from nursery classics such as The Water-Babies to the little-known Wonderland of Evolution, or the story of insect lecturer Fairy Know-a-Bit. In exploring the ways in which authors and translators - from Hans Christian Andersen and Edith Nesbit to the pseudonymous 'A.L.O.E.' and 'Acheta Domestica' - reconciled the differing demands of factual accuracy and fantastical narratives, Keene asks why the fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences. Such stories, she argues, were an important way in which authors and audiences criticised, communicated, and celebrated contemporary scientific ideas, practices, and objects.
Author : Jen Cadwallader
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319588869
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century written by Jen Cadwallader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic course design, this volume reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on digital humanities and “out of the classroom” approaches to Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of an “ideal” course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary, genre, and technological strands may be woven together in meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments, and in-class activities.
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458151
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Monsters written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044266
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. Over 200 entries written by experts in the field are accompanied by an overview introduction by the editor. Generic entries such as 'ghost' and 'vampire' are cross-listed with important specific manifestations of that monster. In addition to monsters appearing in English-language literature and film, the Encyclopedia also includes significant monsters in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African and Middle Eastern traditions. Alphabetically organized, the entries each feature suggestions for further reading. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars and an essential addition to library reference shelves.
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Author : South Australian Institute (ADELAIDE)
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the South Australian Institute. [With Supplement]. written by South Australian Institute (ADELAIDE) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miss O'Keeffe (Adelaide)
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Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Poems for Young Children written by Miss O'Keeffe (Adelaide) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Mary Martha Sherwood
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Total Pages : 156 pages
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Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042336
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science written by John Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
Author : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Supplement to the Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of New York, Containing the Additions Made to August, 1856 written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
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Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library, of the City of New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Martin
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Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Peter Parley's Annual written by William Martin and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : London Library
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Total Pages : 1188 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library ...: Catalogue written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum written by Science Museum South Kensington London SW7 and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667682X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Time Travelers written by Adelene Buckland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain’s most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few. Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.
