Louise Henson Geoffrey Cantor Gowan Dawson Richard Noakes Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham
Ashgate
Hardback
322
2004
Since the publication of Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots literary and cultural historians have focused increasingly on the role of science within nineteenth-century literature as well as the cultural embeddedness of science itself. The periodical press of the era played a crucial role in these processes of cultural exchange frequently intermingling in the same pages scientific commentary fiction and social debate. For the general reader periodicals offered coverage and analysis of scientific developments and were instrumental in shaping public attitudes. Moreover many of the major scientific controversies took place principally in the pages of the general periodical press scientists and scientific popularizers wrote extensively for such periodicals and even edited them.Written by literary scholars historians of science and cultural historians the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles the six sections comprise: 'Women Children and Gender' 'Religious Audiences' 'Naturalizing the Supernatural' 'Contesting New Technologies' 'Professionalization and Journalism' and 'Evolution Psychology and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.
Ashgate
Hardback
322
2004
Since the publication of Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots literary and cultural historians have focused increasingly on the role of science within nineteenth-century literature as well as the cultural embeddedness of science itself. The periodical press of the era played a crucial role in these processes of cultural exchange frequently intermingling in the same pages scientific commentary fiction and social debate. For the general reader periodicals offered coverage and analysis of scientific developments and were instrumental in shaping public attitudes. Moreover many of the major scientific controversies took place principally in the pages of the general periodical press scientists and scientific popularizers wrote extensively for such periodicals and even edited them.Written by literary scholars historians of science and cultural historians the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles the six sections comprise: 'Women Children and Gender' 'Religious Audiences' 'Naturalizing the Supernatural' 'Contesting New Technologies' 'Professionalization and Journalism' and 'Evolution Psychology and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.