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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences

Author: Bernard V Lightman
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard V Lightman
ISBN: 9780226481180 0226481182
OCLC Number: 123029811
Description: xvi, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain.
Responsibility: Bernard Lightman.
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