Strange science : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors

Karpenko, Lara Pauline [HerausgeberIn] ; Claggett, Shalyn R. [HerausgeberIn]

Englisch

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017

1 Online-Ressource

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Erscheint auch als: Druckaugabe- Strange science. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017. - xiv, 293 Seiten

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*Großbritannien / Naturwissenschaften / Pseudowissenschaft / Grenzwissenschaften / Forschungsmethode / Geschichte 1830-1900

*Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 ; Parapsychology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Electronic books ; Science ; Great Britain ; Parapsychology ; Science

*Science ; Social aspects ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Great Britain ; SCIENCE ; History ; History ; Parapsychology ; Science

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: Q127.G5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 509.41/09034;

bisacsh: SCI 034000

bisacsh: LIT004120

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

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

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