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Victorian science and Victorian values : literary perspectives

Title
Victorian science and Victorian values : literary perspectives / edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Paradis, James G., 1942-
  • Postlewait, Thomas.
Description
xiii, 362 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 360
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 360.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1837-1901
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Science > Social aspects > History > Great Britain > 19th century
  • Didactic literature, English > History and criticism
  • Social values in literature
  • Science in literature
  • Social values
  • Science > history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Literature > history
  • Social Values
  • Social values
  • Didactic literature, English
  • English literature
  • Intellectual life
  • Literature and science
  • Science in literature
  • Science > Social aspects
  • Social values in literature
  • Littérature > Congrès comme sujet
  • Science > Histoire
  • Englisch
  • Literatur
  • Naturwissenschaften
  • Wissenschaft
  • Kongress
  • Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • New York (NY, 1978)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Introduction / James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait -- Scientists as Intellectuals : The Early Victorians / S.S. Schweber -- The Romantic Tide Reaches Trinity : Notes on the Transmission and Diffusion of New Approaches to Traditional Studies at Cambridge, 1820-1840 / Robert O. Preyer -- Filaments, Females, Families and Social Fabric : Carlyle's Extension of a Biological Analogy / Jeffrey L. Spear -- Darwin and Landscape / James Paradis -- "Through Science to Despair" : Geology and the Victorians / Dennis R. Dean -- Astronomical Imagery in Victorian Poetry / Jacob Korg -- The "Aims and Intentions of Nature" / David A. Roos -- Mill, Arnold, and Scientific Humanism / Robert Alan Donovan -- Dickens and Victorian Dream Theory / Catherine A. Bernard -- Ruskin and Tyndall : The Poetry of Matter and The Poetry of Spirit / Paul L. Sawyer -- The Spectacular English Sunsets of the 1880s / Thomas A. Zaniello -- The Language of Science and Psychology in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda / Sally Shuttleworth -- Facts and Constructs : Victorian Humanists and Scientific Theorists on Scientific Knowledge / Donald R. Benson -- Bernard Shaw and Science : The Aesthetics of Causality / Thomas Postlewait.
ISBN
  • 0897661095
  • 9780897661096
  • 0897661109
  • 9780897661102
LCCN
80029513
OCLC
  • ocm07197825
  • 7197825
  • SCSB-1426212
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library