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Transactions and encounters : science and culture in the nineteenth century
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Transactions and encounters : science and culture in the nineteenth century

Author: Roger Luckhurst; Josephine McDonagh
Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Roger Luckhurst; Josephine McDonagh
ISBN: 0719059100 9780719059100 0719059119 9780719059117
OCLC Number: 49871736
Description: viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: 'encountering science' / Roger Luckhurst, Josephine McDonagh -- Voice, technology and the Victorian ear / Steven Connor -- Microscope: mediations of the sub-visible world / Isobel Amstrong -- 'Thinking blues': the memory of colour in nineteenth-century photography / Lindsay Smith -- Cross-cultural encounters: the co-production of science and literature in mid-Victorian periodicals / Paul White -- Imitation of life: science, literature and the dissemination of culture / David Amigoni -- Passages in the invention of the psyche: mind-reading in London, 1881-84 / Roger Luckhurst -- Darwin's barnacles: mid-century Victorian natural history and the marine grotesque / Rebecca Stott -- Woman's share in primitive culture: science, femininity and anthropological knowledge / Lynnette Turner -- From The new werther to numbers and arguments: Karl Pearson's eugenics / Carolyn Burdett.
Responsibility: edited by Roger Luckhurst and Josephine McDonagh.
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