Earth on Show - Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

Klappentext Tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. "The portrait of the geological past to a public hungry for drama and instruction is explored with great verve by O'Connor. . . . One could argue that the awareness of deep time has changed human perception of our place in the cosmos more than any other discovery. Anyone interested in how such new ideas are promulgated at large will enjoy Ralph O'Connor's work."--Richard A. Fortey "Times Literary Supplement " Zusammenfassung Tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Ralph Connor, O&apos, Ralph O'Connor, Ralph O''connor, O'Connor Ralph
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226103204
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10320-4
• No. of pages: 542
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form