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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences
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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences / Bernard Lightman.
ISBN
9780226481180 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226481182 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xvi, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-533) and index.
Contents
Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene
Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era
Redefining the maternal tradition
The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle
The evolution of the evolutionary epic
The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge"
Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers
Science writing on New Grub Street
Conclusion: Remapping the terrain.
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