Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0719059100 ISBN 13: 9780719059100

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Transactions and Encounters examines a diverse range of emerging technologies in the Victorian era. Such topics are explored as the popular craze for microscopes; the uncanny possibilities of the telephone; the jostling for authority between literature and science, with scenes by and including Dickens and Lewes, Huxley and Gosse; the weird imaginary around androgynous barnacles; and the competing versions of a mind-reading act. These essays combine to produce an invigorating and involving attempt to re-cast understandings of 19th century encounters between the cultural and scientific spheres.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Josephine McDonagh is Reader in Romantic and Victorian Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0719059100
• ISBN 13: 9780719059100
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Luckhurst Roger, McDonagh Josephine