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Victorian science and literature
Pickering & Chatto, 2011-
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pt. 1 : set ISBN 9781848930919
Description
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component - what might be called 'the literature of science' - and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
Table of Contents
- Part I General Introduction Volume 1: Negotiating Boundaries 'On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Philosophy', Monthly Repository (1834)
- William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Founded upon their History (1840) [extracts]
- Robert Hunt, The Poetry of Science
- or, Studies in the Physical Phenomena of Nature (1848) [extract]
- George Henry Lewes, Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences (1857) [extract]
- [William Whewell], 'Spedding's Complete Edition of the Works of Bacon' Edinburgh Review (1857) [extract]
- John Henry Newman, 'The Mission of the Benedictine Order', Atlantis (1858)
- Hugh Miller, Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859) [extract]
- Eneas Sweetland Dallas, The Gay Science (1866) [extracts]
- Charles Kingsley, 'A Charm of Birds', Fraser's Magazine (1867)
- Michael Faraday, 'Observations on the Education of the Judgment. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain' (1867) [extract]
- Thomas Henry Huxley, 'Aphorisms by Goethe', Nature (1869)
- John Tyndall, 'On the Scientific Use of the Imagination', Fragments of Science for Unscientific People (1871)
- John Ruskin, 'The Relation to Art of the Sciences of Organic Form', The Eagle's Nest (1872)
- Edward Dowden, 'The Scientific Movement and Literature', Contemporary Review (1877)
- Thomas Henry Huxley, 'On Science and Art in Relation to Education' (1882), in Science and Education. Essays by Thomas H Huxley (1893)
- William Samuel vs Thomas Henry Huxley: Lilly, 'Materialism and Morality', Fortnightly Review (1886), Huxley, 'Science and Morals', Fortnightly Review (1886), Lilly, 'The Province of Physics', Fortnightly Review (1887)
- Arthur James Balfour, The Foundations of Belief (1895) [extracts] Volume 2: Victorian Science as Cultural Authority Science as a Source of Cultural Authority: [William Whewell], Review of John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, from Quarterly Review (1831)
- Hugh Miller, 'Stromness and its Asterolepis' and 'The Development Hypothesis, and its Consequences'(1851)
- Herbert Spencer 'The Social Organism' (1860), in Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
- Thomas Henry Huxley, 'On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge', Collected Essays (1866)
- John Ruskin, 'Athena Keramitis', Athena, Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths or Cloud and Storm (1903) [extracts]
- George Henry Lewes, 'On the Dread and Dislike of Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of Theology', Fortnightly Review (1878)
- Arthur James Balfour, A Defence of Philosophical Doubt, being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879) [extract]
- Frances Power Cobbe, 'The Scientific Spirit of the Age', The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and other Pleas and Discussions (1888)
- Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science (1900)
- [Mona Caird], The Sanctuary of Mercy (1892) [extract]. Science Lending New Cultural Authority to an Existing Field: Baden Powell, The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth
- or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy Considered as Subservient to Theology (1838) [extract]
- James Cowles Prichard, 'On the Relations of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge', Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848)
- Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (1874) [extracts]
- Henry Maudsley, 'An Address on Medical Psychology', The British Medical Journal (1872)
- William Kingdon Clifford, 'Right and Wrong, the Scientific Ground of their Distinction', in Lectures and Essays, Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock (eds) (1875)
- Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait, The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1878)
- Vernon Lee, 'Apollo the Fiddler: A Chapter on Artistic Anachronism', Fraser's Magazine (1882)
- Francis Galton, 'Measurement of Character', Fortnightly Review (1884)
- Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1916) [extracts]. Pro-Science and Anti-Science Satire or Parody: Punch
- or, the London Charivari [extracts]
- Benjamin Bendigo, pseud. [William M Thackeray] 'Science at Cambridge', Punch (1848)
- J L, pseud. [John Leech], 'H R H Field-Marshall Chancellor Prince Albert Taking the Pons Asionorum', Punch (1848)
- 'Unnatural Selection and Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be Read at our Social Science Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-Hour or so with Darwin'), Punch (1860)
- 'Punch's Scientific Register', Punch (1864)
- Psychosis, Our modern Philosophers: Darwin, Bain and Spencer
- or, The Descent of Man, Mind and Body (1884) [extracts]
- [William Cosmo Monkhouse], The Automaton: A Comedy in Three Acts [nd] [extracts]
- May Kendall, 'Taking Long Views' and 'The Conquering Machine' Dreams to Sell (1887)
- May Kendall, 'Ether Insatiable', Songs from Dreamland (1894). Worlds that Project (or Contest) the Cultural Authority of Science: Coventry Patmore, 'The Two Desarts', The Unknown Eros (1878)
- [Algernon Charles Swinburne], 'Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue', Fortnightly Review (1881)
- Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower: A Romance (1883) [extract]
- James Clerk Maxwell, 'To Hermann Stoffkraft, PhD, The Hero of a Recent Work Called "Paradoxical Philosophy". A Paradoxical Ode. [After Shelley]', in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell... (1884)
- Grant Allen, 'The Child of the Phalanstery', Strange Stories (1884)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Great Kleinplatz Experiment', Belgravia: A London Magazine (1885)
- Israel Zangwill, 'The Memory Clearing House', Idler: an illustrated monthly (1892) Volume 3: Science, Religion and Natural Theology On The Divine Economy Of Nature: William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1837) [extracts]
- Baden Powell, The Connexion between Natural and Divine Truth (1838) [extract]
- Samuel Brown, 'The Argument of Design Equal to Nothing, or Nieuentyt and Paley vs. David Hume and St. Paul' in Lectures on Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary (1858)
- Edward Forbes, History of British Starfishes (1841) [extracts]
- Frank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (1859) [extract]
- Henry Crosskey, The Method of Creation (1889) [extracts]. Cosmic Considerations: Richard Proctor, Other Worlds Than Ours (1871) [extracts]
- James Prescott Joule, 'On Matter, Living Force, and Heat', in The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule (1847)
- John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (1863) [extracts]
- Thomas Huxley, 'The Physical Basis of Life' Fortnightly Review (1868)
- James Iverach, Christianity and Evolution (1894) [extract]. Redesigning Darwin: F Max Muller, The Science of Language (1891) [extracts]
- F Max Muller, 'Lectures on Mr Darwin's Philosophy of Language: Second Lecture' (1873)
- Henry Acland, The Harveian Oration (1865) [extract]
- Duke of Argyll [G D Campbell], The Reign of Law (1867) [extracts]
- Charles Kingsley, 'The Natural Theology of the Future', Macmillan's Magazine (1871)
- George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind: First Series: The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5) [extracts]
- George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, Second Series: The Physical Basis of Mind (1877) [extract]
- Joseph Parker, Job's Comforters, or Scientific Sympathy (1876) [extract]. God And Nature: Knowing, Feeling: David Moir, 'Hymn to Hesperus' and 'Starlight Reflections' from The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Thomas Aird (ed) (1852)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Nondum' (1866) and 'God's Grandeur', (1877)
- John Henry Newman, 'Desolation' (1868)
- Arthur Grey Butler, 'In the Beginning' (1892)
- George Romanes, 'Charles Darwin - A Memorial Poem', 'The Drama of Life' and 'Natural Theology' (1896) Volume 4: The Evolutionary Epic Before Darwin: The Cosmos, Geology, Fossils, Language, Imagination: John Pringle Nichol, The Architecture of the Heavens (1850) [extracts]
- Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859) [extract]
- [Hensleigh Wedgwood], 'Grimm's Deutche Grammatik', Quarterly Review (1833)
- Richard Owen, Palaeontology: A Systematic Study of Extinct Animals and the Geological Relations (1861) [extracts]. The Development Hypothesis: New Directions: [Herbert Spencer], 'The Development Hypothesis', The Leader (1852)
- [Edmund Saul Dixon], 'A Vision of Animal Existences', Cornhill Magazine (1862)
- William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872) [extracts]
- Edward Clodd, The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution (1901) [extracts]. Late Century Developments and Debates: Evolution as Knowledge, Degeneration, Empire, Gender and Mutuality: Thomas Henry Huxley, Review of Ernst Haeckel, Anthropogenie (1875)
- [Grant Allen], 'Evolution', Cornhill Magazine (1888)
- Edwin Ray Lankester, 'Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism', (1880) [extracts]
- Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1888) [extract]
- Edwin Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880)
- Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894) [extract]
- Eliza Burt Gamble, The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man (1894) [extracts]
- Peter Kropotkin, 'Mutual Aid amongst Modern Men', The Nineteenth Century (1896)
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pt. 2 : set ISBN 9781848930926
Description
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component - what might be called 'the literature of science' - and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
Table of Contents
- Part II Volume 5: New Audiences for Science: Women, Children, Labourers Thomas Twining, Science Made Easy (1876) Women: Mary Roberts, The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed, 2nd edn (1824)
- 'M S R', 'The Englishwoman in London: I: Dr Elisabeth Blackwell' (1859)
- 'M S R', 'The Englishwoman in London: VII: The Sanitary Movement' (1859)
- Lydia Ernestine Becker, 'On the Study of Science by Women' (1869)
- Richard Anthony Proctor, 'Mrs Somerville' (1871)
- Henry Maudsley vs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Henry Maudsley, 'Sex in Mind and Education' (1874)
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 'Sex in Mind and Education: A Reply' (1874)
- John Law [Margaret E Harkness], A City Girl: A Realistic Story (1887)
- Sophia Jex-Blake, 'Medical Women in Fiction' (1893) Children: Thomas C Girton (ed), The House I Live In (1837)
- Henry Mayhew, The Wonders of Science (1858)
- John Henry Pepper, 'Aerostation' (1861)
- [H Frederick Charles], 'Some Boys who became Famous: The Errand-Boy of Jacob's Well Mews [Michael Faraday]' (1879)
- Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 'A Juvenile Lecture at the Royal Institution' frontispiece and 'Lecture VI: Stars' (1889
- 1890)
- S F A Caulfeild, 'Women and Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Part I', The Girl's Own Paper (1894)
- 'Women and Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Part II', The Girls' Own Paper (1895)
- Florence Sophie Davson, 'Women's Work in Sanitation and Hygiene', The Girls' Own Paper (1899) Labourers: Henry Brougham, A Discourse of the Objects (1827)
- Alfred Smith, An Introductory Lecture on the Past and Present State of Science (1831)
- 'Introduction', Popular Science Review (1862)
- Edward Aveling, Darwinism and Small Families (1882)
- Arthur Ransome, On Some Dangers Connected with Dwellings and How to Avoid Them (1883)
- John Sibbald, Work and Rest (1884)
- Alfred Russel Wallace, Vaccination a Delusion, its Penal Enforcement a Crime (1898)
- Roger Langdon, The Life of Roger Langdon (1909) Volume 6: Science, Race, and Imperialism Travel and Exploration: Jehangir Naoroji and Hirjibhoy Meherwanji, Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (1841)
- George Biddell Airy, 'Astronomy' (1849)
- Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals (1854)
- Paul Du Chaillu, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861)
- Nasir al-Din Shah, The Diary of H M The Shah of Persia during his Tour in Europe in AD 1873 (1874)
- Francis Galton, Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1889)
- 'Lady Astronomer' [Elizabeth Brown], Caught in the Tropics (1891) Exhibiting and Collecting: Andrew Smith, 'Introductory Remarks' and 'A Description of Birds Inhabiting the South of Africa' (1830)
- The Industry of Nations as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition of 1851 (1852)
- John Conolly, The Ethnological Exhibitions of London (1855)
- Trailokya Nath Mukharji, A Visit to Europe (1889)
- William Fawcett, 'The Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica' (1897) Natural Theologies: John Williams, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas (1837)
- Alexander Wylie, 'Brief Introduction' to the Shanghae Serial (1857)
- Henry Baker Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible (1867) Race and the Human Sciences: John Crawfurd, 'On the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and Races' (1848)
- James Hunt, 'The Negro's Place in Nature' (1863)
- Report on Charles Staniland Wake, 'Psychological Unity of Mankind' (1868)
- Jones Henry Lamprey, 'On a Method of Measuring the Human Form for the Use of Students in Ethnology' (1869)
- Thomas H Huxley, 'On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Man' (1870)
- T G B Lloyd, 'On the "Beothucs", a Tribe of Red Indians, Supposed to be Extinct, Which Formerly Inhabited Newfoundland' (1875)
- Edward Tregear, The Aryan Maori (1885)
- Isaac Taylor, Origin of the Aryans (1890)
- Harry Johnston, 'The Empire and Anthropology' (1909) Imperial Technologies and the Sciences of Governance: 'Construction of a Road from Colombo to Kandy', Anonymous Ballad from Sri Lanka, palm-leaf manuscript ([c.1825])
- Robert Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (1841)
- Roderick Murchison, 'Address to the Royal Geographical Society of London' (1852)
- Abdul Latif Khan Bahadur, A Discourse on the Nature, Objects, and Advantages of the Periodical Census (1865)
- J Clerk, 'Suez Canal' (1869)
- John Augustus Voelcker, Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture (1893)
- John Henniker Heaton, 'An Imperial Telegraph System' (1899) Science, Nationalism and Anti-Colonialism: Mahendralal Sarkar, 'On the Desirability of Cultivation of the Sciences by the Natives of India' (1869)
- James Hector, 'On Recent Moa Remains in New Zealand' (1871)
- 'Introduction' to al-Muqtataf (1876)
- 'India's Gift to the World' (1895)
- Charles Metcalfe, 'Presidential Adrress' (1903)
- Edward W Blyden, Africa and the Africans (1903)
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 'Bharata Dharma Mahamandala' (1906) Volume 7: Science as Romance Critical Reflections: Anon., [Review of Hugh Miller's] 'The Old Red Sandstone' (1841-2)
- [Charles Dickens], [Review of Robert Hunt's] 'The Poetry of Science' (1848)
- William Wilson, A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject (1851) Familiar Didactic Exposition: Charles Kingsley, Glaucus (1855)
- John Cargill Brough, The Fairy Tales of Science (1859)
- Arabella Buckley, The Fairy-Land of Science (1878)
- John Gordon McPherson, The Fairyland Tales of Science (1891)
- Henry Hutchinson, Prehistoric Man and Beast (1896) Heroic Autobiography: Thomas Hawkins, Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (1834) The Voices of Nature: Mary Roberts, Voices from the Woodlands (1850)
- [Richard H Horne], The Poor Artist
- or, Seven Eye-Sights and One Object (1850)
- John Mill, The Fossil Spirit (1854)
- Frank Constable, The Curse of Intellect (1895) Scientific Fairytales: 'Acheta Domestica' [L M Budgen], Episodes of Insect Life, 1st series (1849)
- [Henry Morley], 'The Water-Drops: A Fairy Tale' (1850)
- Albert and George Gresswell, The Wonderland of Evolution [1884] Visions: Gideon Mantell, Wonders of Geology (1838)
- Horace Smith, 'A Vision' (1838)
- Robert Hunt, Panthea, a Spirit of Nature (1849)
- 'ALOE' [C M Tucker], Fairy Frisket
- or, Peeps at Insect Life (1874) Fantastic Voyages: Agnes Catlow, Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants (1851)
- Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Modern Geology (1859)
- Richard Proctor, 'A Voyage to the Ringed Planet' (1872)
- 'Chrysostom Trueman', The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864) Romancing the Future: Technological Utopia: [W T Stead], 'Looking Forward: A Romance of the Electric Age' (1890) Songs of Scientific Courtship: Robert More, 'The Scientific Man
- or, Mrs Crucible's Lamentation' [1843]
- Edward Forbes, 'A Naturalist's Valentine' [1845]
- Constance Naden, 'Scientific Wooing' and 'Love versus Learning' (1887)
- Arnold Beresford, 'Botany (The Professor's Love-Story)' (1909) Volume 8: Marginal and Occult Sciences Phrenology: John Yelloly, 'A Letter from Charles Villiers to George Cuvier' (1802)
- John Spurzheim, 'Dr Spurzheim's Lectures on Physiognomy and the Physiology of the Brain' (1814-15)
- George Combe, Elements of Phrenology (1824)
- [Daniel Noble], True and False Phrenology (1840)
- George Henry Lewes, 'Eighth Epoch: Psychology Finally Recognized as a Branch of Biology - the Phrenological Hypothesis' (1867) Mesmerism: 'University College Hospital: Abstract of a Clinical Lecture by Dr Elliotson, on remarkable Cases of Sleep Waking, and on the Effects of Animal Magnetism on Patients with Nervous Affections', Lancet (1837)
- 'University College Hospital: Animal Magnetism', Lancet (1838)
- Harriet Martineau 'On Mesmerism' (1844)
- 'Prospectus', Zoist (1843)
- Edmund Gurney, 'The Stages of Hypnotism' (1884) Spiritualism: Robert Dale Owen, Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860)
- John Tyndall, 'Science and the Spirits' (1864), from Fragments of Science (1872)
- Rev. Charles Maurice Davies, 'A Shilling Seance', in Unorthodox London (1873)
- William Henry Harrison, 'Spiritualism' (1873)
- Alfred Russel Wallace, 'A Defence of Modern Spiritualism' (1874)
- 'The Spiritualists at Bow Street' (1876)
- Jean-Martin Charcot, 'Spiritualism and Hysteria' (1889) Psychical Research: Edward Cox, The Province of Psychology (1875)
- Society for Psychical Research, 'Objects of the Society' (1882)
- Society for Psychical Research, 'Report of the Literary Committee' (1882)
- Frederic W H Myers, Science and A Future Life (1893)
- Sir William F Barrett, 'Psychical Research' (1891)
- 'Spookical Research' (1886) Occultism: Annie Besant, Why I became a Theosophist (1891)
- William Thomas Stead, 'How We Intend to Study Borderland' (1893)
- Arthur Edward Waite, 'In the Beginning' and 'The Threefold Division of Mysticism' (1894)
- Arthur Edward Waite, 'What is Alchemy?' (1894)
- Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual (1896)
- William James, 'A Suggestion about Mysticism' (1910) Fantastic Topographies: Flat Earth: 'Parallax' [Samuel Birley Rowbotham], Zetetic Astronomy (1865
- 1873)
- 'Common Sense' [William Carpenter], Theoretical Astronomy Examined and Exposed (1864-6). The Fourth Dimension: Johann C F Zollner, 'On Space of Four Dimensions' (1878)
- 'I Awoke!': Conditions of Life on the Other Side Communicated by Automatic Writing (1895)
- Charles Howard Hinton, What is the Fourth Dimension? (1897). Hollow Earth and Lost Worlds: Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres, Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open about the Poles (1826)
- Ignatius Donnelly, 'The Purpose of this Book', in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)
- William Scott-Elliott, 'Description of Lemurian Man' (1904)
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