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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gowan Lightman Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Bernard (York University Lightman
• Con la collaborazione di: Gowan Dawson (Editore), Dawson Gowan (Editore), Bernard Lightman (Editore), Bernard (York University Lightman (Editore), Lightman Bernard (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780226109503
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10950-3
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; SCIENCE / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science