Silent voices [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455184503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT, : Praeger, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-40782-1; 9786612407826; 0-313-03931-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Collana: Contributions in women's studies, , 0147-104X ; ; no. 200
• Disciplina: 823/.8099287
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. ""Not the Superiority of Belief, but Superiority of True Devotion"": Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit; 2. The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing; 3. The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley; 4. Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian Social Reform Literature; 5. Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor, and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman; 6. On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of Feminist Imperialism7. Re-reading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth; 8. ""I Am Not Esther"": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins; 9. Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-Order; 10. Marie Corelli: ""The Story of One Forgotten""; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern ; readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost

Science, pseudo-science, and society / / edited by Marsha P. Hanen, Margaret J. Osler, and Robert G. Weyant

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154758503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980
• ISBN: 9780889207936; 0889207933
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 303 p. ; ; 23 cm
• Altri autori (Persone): HanenMarsha P. <1936->; OslerMargaret J. <1942->; WeyantRobert G. <1933->
• Disciplina: 500
• Soggetti: Science - Philosophy; Science - Social aspects; Science - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, held at the University of Calgary, May 10-12, 1979.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Introductory Remarks -- The Problem of Demarcation -- Resemblance, Correlation, and Pseudoscience -- The Role of Psychological Explanations of the Rejection or Acceptance of Scientific Theories -- Parapsychology: Science or Pseudo-Science? -- Protoscience, Pseudoscience, Metaphors and Animal Magnetism -- Legal Science and Legal Justification -- The Impact of Pseudo-Science on the Development of Science -- The Influence of Alchemy on Newton -- S. T. Coleridge and the Human Sciences: Anthropology, Phrenology, ; and Mesmerism -- Evolution, Ethnology, and Poetic Fancy: Sir Daniel Wilson and Mid-Victorian Science -- Social Dimensions of Science and Pseudo-Science -- Aristotle and the New Philosophy: Stubbe Versus the Royal Society -- Deploying ‘Pseudoscience’: Then and Now -- Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science -- Closing Remarks
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10–12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars. A primary inspiration for the symposium on “Science, Pseudoscience, and Society” was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudo–science plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues. This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudo–science, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudo–science and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudo–sciences, consider their impact—positive or negative—on the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudo–sciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.