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Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By Roger Luckhurst (Edited by), Josephine McDonagh (Edited by)

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Encountering science - Roger Luckhurst & Josephine McDonagh 1. Voice, technology and the Victorian Ear - Steven Connor 2. The microscope: meditations on the sub-visible world - Isobel Armstrong 3. 'Thinking blues': the memory of colour in nineteenth-century photography - Lindsay Smith 4. Cross-cultural encounters: the co-production of science and literature in mid-Victorian periodicals - Paul White 5. Imitation of life: science, literature and the dissemination of culture - David Amigoni 6. Passages in the invention of the psyche: mind-reading in London 1881-4 - Roger Luckhurst 7. Darwin's barnacles: mid-century Victorian natural history and the marine grotesque - Rebecca Stott 8. Women's share in primitive culture: science, femininity and anthropological knowledge - Lynette Turner 9. From the 'New Werther' to numbers and arguments: Karl Pearson's eugenics - Carolyn Burdett

About the Author

Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London Josephine McDonagh is Reader in Romantic and Victorian Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London