Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND GENDER -- 1 Green-Stocking or Blue? Science in Three Women's Magazines, 1800-50 -- 2 The 'Empty-Headed Beauty' and the 'Sweet Girl Graduate': Women's Science Education in Punch, 1860-90 -- 3 Making Socialists or Murdering to Dissect? Natural History and Child Socialization in the Labour Prophet and Labour Leader -- PART II: RELIGIOUS AUDIENCES -- 4 The Periodical as Barometer: Spiritual Measurement and the Evangelical Magazine -- 5 Periodicals and the Making of Reading Audiences for Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Youth's Magazine, 1828-37 -- 6 Periodicals and Book Series: Complementary Aspects of a Publisher's Mission -- 7 Friends of Science? The Role of Science in Quaker Periodicals -- PART III: NATURALIZING THE SUPERNATURAL -- 8 Almanacs and the Profits of Natural Knowledge -- 9 'In the Natural Course of Physical Things': Ghosts and Science in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round -- 10 W. T. Stead's Occult Economies -- PART IV: CONTESTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES -- 11 Science, Industry, and Nationalism in the Dublin Penny Journal -- 12 Representing 'A Century of Inventions': Nineteenth-Century Technology and Victorian Punch -- 13 The View from the Hills: Environment and Technology in Victorian Periodicals -- 14 'I Never Will Have the Electric Light in My House': Alice Gordon and the Gendered Periodical Representation of a Contentious New Technology -- PART V: PROFESSIONALIZATION AND JOURNALISM -- 15 The Making of an Editor: The Case of William Crookes -- 16 Knowledge Confronts Nature: Richard Proctor and Popular Science Periodicals.

17 'Within the Bounds of Science': Redirecting Controversies to Nature -- 18 Scientific Authority and Scientific Controversy in Nature: North Britain against the X Club -- PART VI: EVOLUTION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND CULTURE -- 19 'The Disturbing Anarchy of Investigation': Psychological Debate and the Victorian Periodical -- 20 Carving Coconuts, the Philosophy of Drawing Rooms, and the Politics of Dates: Grant Allen, Popular Scientific Journalism, Evolution, and Culture in the Cornhill Magazine -- 21 The Academy and Cosmopolis: Evolution and Culture in Robert Louis Stevenson's Periodical Encounters -- 22 Eugenics and Freedom at the Fin de Stècle -- Index.

Since the publication of Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots, literary and cultural historians have focused increasingly on the role of science within nineteenth-century literature, as well as the cultural embeddedness of science itself. The periodical press of the era played a crucial role in these processes of cultural exchange, frequently intermingling in the same pages scientific commentary, fiction, and social debate. For the general reader, periodicals offered coverage and analysis of scientific developments and were instrumental in shaping public attitudes. Moreover, many of the major scientific controversies took place principally in the pages of the general periodical press; scientists and scientific popularizers wrote extensively for such periodicals and even edited them. Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural', 'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.

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