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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph O'Connor |
| ISBN: | 9780226616681 0226616681 |
| OCLC Number: | 154309285 |
| Awards: | Winner of British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize 2007. |
| Description: | xiii, 541 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Science as literature -- Enter the mammoth -- William Buckland : antiquary and wizard -- Lizards and literalists -- Lyell steps in -- Marketing geology -- Polite science and narrative form -- Time travel and virtual tourism in the age of John Martin -- Literary monsters -- Scenes and legends from deep time -- Hugh Miller and the geologic diorama -- Epilogue : New mythologies of the ancient earth. |
| Responsibility: | Ralph O'Connor. |
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Abstract:
Tracks the growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a geohistory of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Biblereading public. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, this book attempts to prove that geology's success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors.
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"The Earth on Show is an intelligent, imaginatively conceived, and impressively original piece of work. Ralph O'Connor's topic is important, and his range of research is broad. It is certain to constitute an important contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century British science, and of Victorian culture more generally." - Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology" Read more...
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- Geology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Geology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Geology in literature.
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain.
- Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.
- Fossil.
- Popularisierung.
- Historische Geologie.
- Evolutionstheorie.
- Darwinismus.
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