Culture and science in the nineteenth-century media
Title:
Culture and science in the nineteenth-century media
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richar Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations.
ISBN:
9781351946858
9781351946841
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General Note:
First published in 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre:
Contents:
Green-stocking or blue? : science in three women's magazines, 1800-50 / Ann B. Shteir -- 'Empty-headed beauty' and the 'sweet girl graduate' : women's science education in Punch, 1860-90 / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield -- Making socialists or murdering to dissect? : natural history and child socialization in the Labour Prophet and Labour Leader / Caroline Sumpter -- Periodical as barometer : spiritual measurement and the Evangelical Magazine / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Periodicals and the making of reading audiences for science in early nineteenth-century Britain : the Youth's Magazine, 1828-37 / Jonathan R. Topham -- Periodicals and book series : complementary aspects of a publisher's mission / Aileen Fyfe -- Friends of science? : the role of science in Quaker periodicals / Geoffrey Cantor -- Almanacs and the profits of natural knowledge / Katharine Anderson -- 'In the natural course of physical things' : ghosts and science in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round / Louise Henson -- W.T. Stead's occult economies / Roger Luckhurst -- Science, industry, and nationalism in the Dublin Penny Journal / Elizabeth Tilley -- Representing 'a century of inventions' : nineteenth-century technology and Victorian Punch / Richard Noakes -- View from the hills : environment and technology in Victorian periodicals / Harriet Ritvo -- 'I never will have the electric light in my house' : Alice Gordon and the gendered periodical representation of a contentious new technology / Graeme J.N. Gooday -- Making of an editor : the case of William Crookes / William H. Brock -- Knowledge confronts Nature : Richard Proctor and popular science periodicals / Bernard Lightman -- 'Within the bounds of science' : redirecting controversies to Nature / Peter C. Kjœrgaard -- Scientific authority and scientific controversy in Nature : north Britain against the X Club / Ruth Barton -- 'Disturbing anarchy of investigation' : psychological debate and the Victorian periodical / Rick Rylance -- Carving coconuts, the philosophy of drawing rooms, and the politics of dates : Grant Allen, popular scientific journalism, evolution, and culture in the Cornhill Magazine / David Amigoni -- Academy and Cosmopolis : evolution and culture in Robert Louis Stevenson's periodical encounters / Julia Reid -- Eugenics and freedom at the fin de siècle / Angelique Richardson.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 8, 2017).