Victorian Scientific Naturalism - Community, Identity, Continuity

Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite.

About the author

Gowan Dawson is a senior lecturer in Victorian studies at the University of Leicester, UK, and the author of Darwin, Literature, and Victorian Respectability. He lives in Leicester. Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University in Toronto and the author or editor of numerous books, including Victorian Popularizers of Science, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Thornhill, Ontario.

Summary

Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite.

Product details

• Authors: Gowan Lightman Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Bernard (York University Lightman
• Assisted by: Gowan Dawson (Editor), Dawson Gowan (Editor), Bernard Lightman (Editor), Bernard (York University Lightman (Editor), Lightman Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780226109503
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10950-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science