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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. …
Age of Scientific Naturalism
Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Victorian Faith in Crisis
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
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 …