Lightman, Bernard V. (Editor)
Dawson, Gowan (Editor)
University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2014
Language: English
Physical Details: 368 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Victorian Scientific Naturalism 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. These scientific naturalists---led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall---sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics. In Victorian Scientific Naturalism, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism---as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth century---that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.
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Essay Review Henry M. Cowles (2017) History Naturalized. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 107-116).
Review Amy M. King (2015) Review of "Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity". Nineteenth-Century Contexts (pp. 172-175).
Review Rectenwald, Michael (2015) Review of "Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 3).
Review Babb, Genie (2015) Review of "Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 728-729).
Chapter Dawson, Gowan (2014) “The Great O. Versus the Jermyn St. Pet”: Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 27-54).
Chapter Reidy, Michael S. (2014) Evolutionary Naturalism on High: The Victorians Sequester the Alps. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 55-78).
Chapter Levine, George (2014) Paradox: The Art of Scientific Naturalism. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 79-97).
Chapter Lightman, Bernard (2014) Huxley and the Devonshire Commission. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 101-130).
Chapter Elwick, James (2014) Economies of Scales: Evolutionary Naturalists and the Victorian Examination System. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 131-156).
Chapter Endersby, Jim (2014) Odd Man Out: Was Joseph Hooker an Evolutionary Naturalist?. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 157-185).
Chapter Barton, Ruth (2014) Sunday Lecture Societies: Naturalistic Scientists, Unitarians, and Secularists Unite against Sabbatarian Legislation. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 189-219).
Chapter White, Paul (2014) The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 220-241).
Chapter Stanley, Matthew (2014) Where Naturalism and Theism Met: The Uniformity of Nature. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 242-262).
Chapter Porter, Theodore M. (2014) The Fate of Scientific Naturalism: From Public Sphere to Professional Exclusivity. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 265-287).
Chapter Baldwin, Melinda (2014) The Successors to the X Club? Late Victorian Naturalists and Nature, 1869--1900. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 288-308).
Chapter Bowler, Peter J. (2014) From Agnosticism to Rationalism: Evolutionary Biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Naturalism. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 309-326).
Chapter Dawson, Gowan; Lightman, Bernard (2014) Introduction. In: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity (pp. 1-25).
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