Victorian popularizers of science designing nature for new audiences /

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Autor Principal: Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
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Table of 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.