Victorian culture and the origin of disciplines
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Victorian culture and the origin of disciplines
（Nineteenth century series）
Routledge, 2021, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-314) and index
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Description
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking and answering a series of deceptively simple questions: how did Victorians define a discipline; what factors impinged upon that definition; and how did they respond to disciplinary understanding? Structured around sections on professionalization, university curriculums, society journals, literary genres and interdisciplinarity, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines addresses the tangled bank of disciplinarity in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences including musicology, dance, literature, and art history; classics, history, archaeology, and theology; anthropology, psychology; and biology, mathematics and physics. Chapters examine the generative forces driving disciplinary formation, and gauge its success or failure against social, cultural, political, and economic environmental pressures. No other volume has focused specifically on the origin of Victorian disciplines in order to track the birth, death, and growth of the units into which knowledge was divided in this period, and no other volume has placed such a wide array of Victorian disciplines in their cultural context.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon
Section I: Professional Validation
Chapter 1. The Evolution of the Scientific Disciplines
Bernard Lightman
Chapter 2. Disciplining Terpsichore: Moves Towards the Study of Dance in Victorian Britain
Theresa Jill Buckland
Section II: University Education
Chapter 3. Positivism and Early Chairs of Art History in Europe: 1860-1880
Barbara Larson
Chapter 4. The Manchester School of History: Victorian Origins of a 'Modernist' Discipline
H.S. Jones
Section III: Society Journals
Chapter 5. Un-gentlemanly Science: Rhetoric and Rivalry in the Codification of British Zoology, 1830-1840
David Lowther
Chapter 6. The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt and British Anthropology in the 1860s
Efram Sera-Shriar
Section IV: Literary Genres
Chapter 7. 'A subject which is peculiarly adapted to all cyclists': Popular Understandings of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Rachel Bryant Davies
Chapter 8. Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child Psychology
Roisin Laing
Section V: Disciplinary Boundaries
Chapter 9. Disentangling Antiquity: Classics and Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Simon Goldhill
Chapter 10. From Truth to Proof to Computer Problem: Of Mathematical Discipline and Epistemological Change
Joan L. Richards
Section VI: Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 11. Middlemarch and the Limits of Interdisciplinarity
Renata Kobetts Miller
Chapter 12. All Arts Constantly Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline
Bennett Zon
Conclusion: Metapatterns, Metadisciplines
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon
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