ABSTRACT
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural', 'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Women, Children, and Gender
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
The ‘Empty-Headed Beauty’ and the ‘Sweet Girl Graduate’: Women’s Science Education in Punch, 1860–90
part II|52 pages
Religious Audiences
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
The Periodical as Barometer: Spiritual Measurement and the Evangelical Magazine
chapter Chapter 6|12 pages
Periodicals and Book Series: Complementary Aspects of a Publisher’s Mission
part III|41 pages
Naturalizing the Supernatural
chapter Chapter 9|11 pages
‘In the Natural Course of Physical Things’: Ghosts and Science in Charles Dickens’s All the Year Round
part IV|49 pages
Contesting New Technologies
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
Representing ‘A Century of Inventions’: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Victorian Punch *
chapter Chapter 13|8 pages
The View from the Hills: Environment and Technology in Victorian Periodicals
part V|49 pages
Professionalization and Journalism
chapter Chapter 16|12 pages
Knowledge Confronts Nature: Richard Proctor and Popular Science Periodicals
chapter Chapter 18|13 pages
Scientific Authority and Scientific Controversy in Nature: North Britain against the X Club
part VI|50 pages
Evolution, Psychology, and Culture