Frankenstein's science : experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 / / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 823/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GoodallJane R
KingChrista Knellwolf |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-351-93583-6
1-138-25799-0 1-315-25503-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction / Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall -- 2. Educating Mary : women and scientific literature in the early nineteenth century / Patricia Fara -- 3. The professor and the orang-outang : Mary Shelley as a child reader / Judith Barbour -- 4. Geographic boundaries and inner space : Frankenstein, scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute / Christa Knellwolf -- 5. Animal experiments and antivivisection debates in the 1820s / Anita Guerrini -- 6. Monstrous progeny : the teratological tradition in science and literature / Melinda Cooper -- 7. Shadows of the invisible world : Mesmer, Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences / Joan Kirkby -- 8. Electrical romanticism / Jane Goodall -- 9. Evolution, revolution and Frankenstein's creature / Allan K. Hunter -- 10. Science as spectacle : electrical showmanship in the English Enlightenment / Ian Jackson -- 11. Collectors of nature's curiosities : science, popular culture and the rise of natural history museums / Christine Cheater -- 12. The nightmare of evolution : H.G. Wells, Percival Lowell and the legacies of Frankenstein's science / Robert Markley. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154620503321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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The ploy of instinct : Victorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance / / Kathleen Frederickson |
Autore | Frederickson Kathleen |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina | 156 |
Collana | Forms of Living |
Soggetto topico |
Instinct - History - 19th century
Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8232-6252-9
0-8232-6639-7 0-8232-6254-5 0-8232-6255-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Like an Animal -- 2. The Case of Sexology at Work -- 3. Freud’s Australia -- 4. Angel in the Big House -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465565203321 |
Frederickson Kathleen | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ploy of instinct : Victorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance / / Kathleen Frederickson |
Autore | Frederickson Kathleen |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina | 156 |
Collana | Forms of Living |
Soggetto topico |
Instinct - History - 19th century
Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Instinct
Nature Science Sexuality Victorian anthropology pornography psychoanalysis sexology suffragettes |
ISBN |
0-8232-6252-9
0-8232-6639-7 0-8232-6254-5 0-8232-6255-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Like an Animal -- 2. The Case of Sexology at Work -- 3. Freud’s Australia -- 4. Angel in the Big House -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786764503321 |
Frederickson Kathleen | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ploy of instinct : Victorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance / / Kathleen Frederickson |
Autore | Frederickson Kathleen |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina | 156 |
Collana | Forms of Living |
Soggetto topico |
Instinct - History - 19th century
Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Instinct
Nature Science Sexuality Victorian anthropology pornography psychoanalysis sexology suffragettes |
ISBN |
0-8232-6252-9
0-8232-6639-7 0-8232-6254-5 0-8232-6255-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Like an Animal -- 2. The Case of Sexology at Work -- 3. Freud’s Australia -- 4. Angel in the Big House -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820594403321 |
Frederickson Kathleen | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Recreating Newton : Newtonian biography and the making of nineteenth-century history of science / / by Rebekah Higgitt |
Autore | Higgitt Rebekah |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 530.092 |
Collana | Science and culture in the nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
Scientists - History and criticism
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Science - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Historiography Biography as a literary form |
ISBN |
0-8229-4477-4
0-8229-8179-3 1-315-65306-0 1-317-31494-8 1-281-12503-2 9786611125035 1-85196-547-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Tables; Introduction; 1 Jean-Baptiste Biot's 'Newton' and its English Translation (1822-1829); 2 David Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac newton (1831): Defending the Hero; 3 Francis Baily's Account of the Revd John Flamsteed (1835); 4 Newtonian Studies and the History of Science 1835-1855; 5 David Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855): The 'Regretful Witness'; 6 The 'Mythical' and the 'Historical' Newton; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix: Translations of Quotations from Biot's 'Newton' in Chapter 1; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910528360703321 |
Higgitt Rebekah | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Repositioning Victorian sciences : shifting centres in nineteenth-century scientific thinking / / edited by David Clifford [and others] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Collana | Anthem nineteenth century studies |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-283-37768-3
9786613377685 1-84331-751-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Margins and centres / Alex Warwick -- ; 2. 'Speakers concerning the Earth' : Ruskin's geology after 1860 / Caroline Trowbridge -- ; 3. Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents in the Victorian era / Sherrie Lyons -- ; 4. 'The drugs, the blister and the lancet are all laid aside' : hydropathy and medical orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900 / Alastair Durie -- ; 5. Anna Kingsford : scientist and sorceress / Alison Butler -- ; 6. A science for one or a science for all? : physiognomy, self-help, and the practical benefits of science / Lucy Hartley -- ; 7. 'Supposed differences' : Lydia Becker and Victorian women's participation in the BAAS / Susan David Bernstein. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459207803321 |
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls [[electronic resource] ] : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455111303321 |
Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls [[electronic resource] ] : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778522003321 |
Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807133403321 |
Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Strange science [[electronic resource] ] : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 509.4109034 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Parapsychology - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-472-90077-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213813203321 |
Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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