Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-century Scientific ThinkingDavid Clifford 'Sciences' were named and formed with great speed in the nineteenth century. Yet what constitutes a 'true' science? The Victorian era facilitated the rise of practices such as phrenology and physiognomy, so-called sciences that lost their status and fell out of use rather swiftly. This collection of essays seeks to examine the marginalised sciences of the nineteenth century in an attempt to define the shifting centres of scientific thinking, specifically asking: how do some sciences emerge to occupy central ground and how do others become consigned to the margins? The essays in this collection explore the influence of nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences, investigating the emergence of marginal sciences such as scriptural geology and spiritualism. 'Repositioning Victorian Sciences' is a valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century science in its original context, and will also be of great interest to those studying the era as a whole. |
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... Bakhtin and Medvedev maintain that ' a scientific work never ends ; one work takes up where the other leaves off . Science is an endless unity . It cannot be broken down into a series of finished and self - sufficient works'.31 Yet ...
... Bakhtin and P.N. Medvedev , The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship , trans . A.J. Wehrle ( Baltimore , John Hopkins University Press 1994 ) , cited in The Bakhtin Reader , ed . by Pam Morris ( London , Edward Arnold 1994 ) , pp . 175 ...
... Bakhtin , ' The Problem of Speech Genres , ' in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays , ed . Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist , trans . Vern W. McGee ( Austin , University of Texas Press , 1986 ) , p . 61. Emphasis in the original . Bakhtin ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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