The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak: 87 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Softcover

Hesketh, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822966360 ISBN 13: 9780822966364

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021

Synopsis

New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked. Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

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About the Author

Ian Hesketh is an Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate, The Science o

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822966360
• ISBN 13: 9780822966364
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248