Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy - Beautiful Mechanism

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism tracks Victorians' skeptical romance with the microscope, from a time when microscopists struggled for scientific authority, to one where the microscope had become an icon of modernity, science, and popular culture.

About the author

Meegan Kennedy is an Associate Professor of English at Florida State University and a founding member of FSU's Health Humanities Initiative. She has taught at Harvard University and Trinity College (Connecticut). She studies the history and culture of Victorian medicine, science, and the novel, with a particular interest in how we gather, verify, and share sense-based knowledge. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library, among others. With Piers Hall, she is a General Editor of the Routledge series and database Routledge Historical Resources: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Summary

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism tracks Victorians' skeptical romance with the microscope, from a time when microscopists struggled for scientific authority, to one where the microscope had become an icon of modernity, science, and popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Meegan Kennedy, Meegan (Associate Professor of English Kennedy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9780198939009
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893900-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, English, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, History of Science, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)