Science and eccentricity : collecting, writing and performing science for early nineteenth-century audiences
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Science and eccentricity : collecting, writing and performing science for early nineteenth-century audiences
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 4）
Pickering & Chatto, 2008
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注記
Bibliography: p. 179-241
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
目次
Introduction 1 Defining eccentricity 2 Performing eccentricity: William Martin and the world turned upside down 3 'Beyond the pale of ordinary criticism': Eccentric writing and the works of Thomas Hawkins 4 Eccentricity on display: Charles Waterton as collector and specimen Conclusion
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