| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2017
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages :) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
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| Disciplina |
509.41/09034
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| Soggetto topico |
Science and state - Great Britain
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| ISBN |
0-472-12245-2
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
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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| Altri titoli varianti |
Strange Science, Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910166649203321 |
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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age / / Lara P. Karpenko, Shalyn Claggett