Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel / / Anne DeWitt [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | DeWitt Anne |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823/.809355 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Moral conditions in literature |
ISBN |
1-107-24177-4
1-139-89165-0 1-316-60094-7 1-107-25128-1 1-107-24796-9 1-139-56638-5 1-107-24879-5 1-107-25045-5 1-107-24962-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalism -- Moral uses, narrative effects: natural history in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell -- "The actual sky is a horror": Thomas Hardy and the problems of scientific thinking -- "The moral influence of those cruelties": the vivisection debate, antivivisection fiction, and the status of Victorian science -- Science, aestheticism, and the literary career of H.G. Wells. |
Altri titoli varianti | Moral Authority, Men of Science, & the Victorian Novel |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807737303321 |
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The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense / / Daniel Brown [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Brown Daniel <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 821/.80936 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism
Scientists' writings Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-139-61066-X
1-107-23603-7 1-139-61252-2 1-139-62182-3 1-283-94806-0 1-139-62554-3 1-139-60897-5 1-139-15107-X 1-139-61624-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play : William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell -- 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics -- 3. Knowing more than you think : James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams -- 4. Red lions : Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell -- 5. Popular science lectures : "a Tyndallic ode" -- 6. John Tyndall and "the scientific use of the imagination" -- 7. "Molecular evolution" : Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius -- 8. James Joseph Sylvester : the romance of space -- 9. James Joseph Sylvester : the calculus of forms -- 10. Science on Parnassus. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462810703321 |
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The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense / / Daniel Brown [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Brown Daniel <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 821/.80936 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism
Scientists' writings Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-139-61066-X
1-107-23603-7 1-139-61252-2 1-139-62182-3 1-283-94806-0 1-139-62554-3 1-139-60897-5 1-139-15107-X 1-139-61624-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play : William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell -- 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics -- 3. Knowing more than you think : James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams -- 4. Red lions : Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell -- 5. Popular science lectures : "a Tyndallic ode" -- 6. John Tyndall and "the scientific use of the imagination" -- 7. "Molecular evolution" : Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius -- 8. James Joseph Sylvester : the romance of space -- 9. James Joseph Sylvester : the calculus of forms -- 10. Science on Parnassus. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786031903321 |
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The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense / / Daniel Brown [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Brown Daniel <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 821/.80936 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism
Scientists' writings Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-139-61066-X
1-107-23603-7 1-139-61252-2 1-139-62182-3 1-283-94806-0 1-139-62554-3 1-139-60897-5 1-139-15107-X 1-139-61624-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play : William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell -- 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics -- 3. Knowing more than you think : James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams -- 4. Red lions : Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell -- 5. Popular science lectures : "a Tyndallic ode" -- 6. John Tyndall and "the scientific use of the imagination" -- 7. "Molecular evolution" : Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius -- 8. James Joseph Sylvester : the romance of space -- 9. James Joseph Sylvester : the calculus of forms -- 10. Science on Parnassus. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815214103321 |
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Romantic science [[electronic resource] ] : the literary forms of natural history / / Noah Heringman, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HeringmanNoah |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Nature in literature Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Natural history in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-7914-8693-1
1-4175-3876-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450779803321 |
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 | ||
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Romantic science [[electronic resource] ] : the literary forms of natural history / / Noah Heringman, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HeringmanNoah |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Nature in literature Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Natural history in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-8693-1
1-4175-3876-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777443803321 |
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Romantic science [[electronic resource] ] : the literary forms of natural history / / Noah Heringman, editor |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HeringmanNoah |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Nature in literature Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Natural history in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-8693-1
1-4175-3876-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- A Note about the Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Boundaries of Natural History -- “Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes” -- The Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth -- “Great Frosts and . . . Some Very Hot Summers” -- The Global Reach of Natural History -- Jefferson’s Thermometer -- Robinson Crusoe’s Earthenware Pot -- Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the “Yellow Peril” -- Botany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse -- Lyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent -- Romantic Exemplarity -- Taxonomical Cures -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814461503321 |
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Space and the "march of mind" [[electronic resource] ] : literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850 / / Alice Jenkins |
Autore | Jenkins Alice <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.935609034 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Space in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-152617-7
1-281-16066-0 9786611160661 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; I. THINKING WITH SPACES; 1. Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning; 2. Organizing the Space of Knowledge; 3. Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes; 4. Space and the Languages of Science; II. THINKING ABOUT SPACE; 5. Aspiring to the Abstract: Pure Space and Geometry; 6. Bodies in Space: Ether, Light, and the Beginnings of the Field; 7. Chaos, the Void, and Poetry; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465640503321 |
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Space and the "march of mind" [[electronic resource] ] : literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850 / / Alice Jenkins |
Autore | Jenkins Alice <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.935609034 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Space in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-152617-7
1-281-16066-0 9786611160661 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; I. THINKING WITH SPACES; 1. Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning; 2. Organizing the Space of Knowledge; 3. Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes; 4. Space and the Languages of Science; II. THINKING ABOUT SPACE; 5. Aspiring to the Abstract: Pure Space and Geometry; 6. Bodies in Space: Ether, Light, and the Beginnings of the Field; 7. Chaos, the Void, and Poetry; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792228003321 |
Jenkins Alice <1970->
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Space and the "march of mind" [[electronic resource] ] : literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850 / / Alice Jenkins |
Autore | Jenkins Alice <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.935609034 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Space in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-152617-7
1-281-16066-0 9786611160661 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; I. THINKING WITH SPACES; 1. Culture as Nature: Landscape Metaphors and Access to the World of Learning; 2. Organizing the Space of Knowledge; 3. Disciplinary Boundaries and Border Disputes; 4. Space and the Languages of Science; II. THINKING ABOUT SPACE; 5. Aspiring to the Abstract: Pure Space and Geometry; 6. Bodies in Space: Ether, Light, and the Beginnings of the Field; 7. Chaos, the Void, and Poetry; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819644903321 |
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