Strange science : : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors.
Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, MI : : University of Michigan Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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. nductive 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.