Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature.
Language: English
Published by Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 2004
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 45] Contents: Introduction / Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, and Jonathan R. Topham -- The Mirror of literature, amusement and instruction, and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham -- The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham -- Punch and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes -- The Cornhill magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- The Boy's own paper and late-Victorian juvenile magazines / Richard Noakes -- The Review of reviews and the new journalism in late-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science' / Sally Shuttleworth -- Scientific biography in the periodical press / Geoffrey Cantor -- Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late-Victorian periodical / Graeme Gooday. 230 x 150 mm. xi, 329 pp. [ISBN: 978-0521836371] Hardbound. A fine bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper. …
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- Title
- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature.
- Author
- Cantor, G.N. (Editor)
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521836379
- ISBN 13
- 9780521836371
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- English Literature: Victorian
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About the Author
Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. He has published articles on the interrelations of Victorian science and literature.
Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Cambridge 2004).
Richard Noakes is British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. He has published on the history of Victorian physical sciences and spiritualism and is the co-editor (with Kevin Knox) of From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge, 2003).
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked extensively on the relations between science and literature. Her books in this area include Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996), and Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830–1890 (with Jenny Bourne Taylor, 1998).
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