Strange Science : : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2016. Ã2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (235 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World
- 1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society
- 2. Discriminating the "Minuter Beauties of Nature": Botany as Natural Theology in a Victorian Medical School
- 3. "A Perfect World of Wonders": Marianne North and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany
- 4. Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part II. Strange Bodies: Rethinking Physiology
- 5. Reading through Deafness: Francis Galton and the Strange Science of Psychophysics
- 6. Performing Phonographic Physiology
- 7. "So Extraordinary a Bond": Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams's Notting Hill Mystery
- 8. Immoral Science in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Part III. Strange Energies: Reconceptualizing the Physical Universe
- 9. Chaotic Fictions: Nonlinear Effects in Victorian Science and Literature
- 10. The Victorian Occult Atom: Annie Besant and Clairvoyant Atomic Research
- 11. Inductive Science, Literary Theory, and the Occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Suggestive" System
- 12. Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits
- 13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics
- Contributors
- Index.