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  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonathan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonathan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonathan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonathan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Making a Grade

    Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing

    by James Elwick ...
    Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century more than two million people had written mass exams, particularly in science, technology, and mathematics. Some candidates responded to this standardization by cramming or cheating; others embraced the hope that such tests rewarded not only ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

    Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858

    by James Elwick ...
    Series Book 87 - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Science & Education

    Enriched edition. Fostering Rational Thought Through Science Education in the Victorian Era

    by Thomas Henry Huxley, Troy Callahan ...
    In "Science & Education," Thomas Henry Huxley meticulously explores the intricate relationships between science, education, and society during the late 19th century. Employing a compelling blend of rhetoric and empirical evidence, Huxley advocates for the integration of scientific principles into the educational curriculum, arguing that such knowledge is paramount for the intellectual and moral ... Read more

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    Science and Art of the Ethereal

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  • Darwin's Plots

    Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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    Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's ... Read more

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  • Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure

    And Other Essays

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    British-born thinker and activist Edward Carpenter proposes a number of novel ideas in this engaging collection of essays. Chief among them is the notion that most of the civilized societies that have emerged throughout human history have crumbled after a period of centuries. Carpenter posits that "civilization" is a developmental phase that humankind must pass through in its evolution toward a ... Read more

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    Exploring the Divine in Modern Thought: A Comprehensive Study

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