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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 Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
The specialization thesis-the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines-has played an integral …
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 …
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 …
Companion to the History of Science
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates …
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 …
Victorian Faith in Crisis
Origins of Agnosticism
Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological …
Science in the Marketplace
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But …
Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious TraditionsBefore the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between …
Victorian Science in Context
Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while …
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, …