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Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science. The specialization thesis-the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into …
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words is a celebration of the variousness of contemporary poets living and writing in the UK today. 56 poets talk about their own poetic voices and their work. …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest …
Victorian Faith in Crisis
This is a collection of essays which discuss the directions taken by different faiths during the 19th century. The book discusses the alternatives to faith, different perspectives …
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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 …
Identity in a Secular Age
Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in …
Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his …
Evolutions and Religious Traditions in the Long Nineteenth Century
Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of …
Victorian Faith in Crisis
Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, …
Rethinking History, Science, and Religion
The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an …