Strange science : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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出版情報 | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , [2017] |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | 1 online resource |
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内容注記 | Introduction Part I. Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World : 1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society 2. Discriminating the "Minuter Beauties of Nature": Botany as Natural Theology in a Victorian Medical School 3. "A Perfect World of Wonders": Marianne North and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany 4. Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century Part II. Strange Bodies: Rethinking Physiology : 5. Reading through Deafness: Francis Galton and the Strange Science of Psychophysics 6. Performing Phonographic Physiology 7. "So Extraordinary a Bond": Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams's Notting Hill Mystery 8. Immoral Science in The Picture of Dorian Gray Part III. Strange Energies: Reconceptualizing the Physical Universe : 9. Chaotic Fictions: Nonlinear Effects in Victorian Science and Literature 10. The Victorian Occult Atom: Annie Besant and Clairvoyant Atomic Research 11. nductive Science, Literary Theory, and the Occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Suggestive" System 12. Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits 13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics |
一般注記 | 'Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age' is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of the Victorian public. Conversely, many branches of science that we now view as uncontroversial, such as physics and botany, were often associated with unorthodox methods of inquiry. Whether incorporated into mainstream scientific thought, or relegated by 21st century historians to the category of the pseudo- or even anti-scientific, these sciences generated conversation, enthusiasm, and controversy within Victorian society Open Access In English Includes bibliographical references and index "With a foreword by Dame Gillian Beer"--Cover Description based on print version record |
著者標目 | Karpenko, Lara Pauline, Claggett, Shalyn R., |
件 名 | FREE:History LCSH:Science -- 19th century. -- Great Britain -- Social aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Science -- 19th century. -- Great Britain -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Parapsychology -- 19th century. -- Great Britain -- History 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:SCIENCE -- History 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Parapsychology FREE:Science FREE:Science -- Social aspects 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Great Britain -- Victoria, 1837-1901. -- History 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Great Britain LCSH:Electronic books FREE:History FREE:1800-1901 |
分 類 | DC23:509.41/09034 |
書誌ID | ED00004292 |
ISBN | 9780472122455 |
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