Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity,

Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity

Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalistsâ€•led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndallâ€•sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics.
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In Victorian Scientific Naturalism, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalismâ€•as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth centuryâ€•that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780226109503
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer	University of Chicago Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780226109503
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity

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