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31 de ene. de 2012 · Lightman’s most recent publications include Victorian Popularizers of Science (2007), Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain (2007), and Science in the Marketplace (2009, co-edited with Aileen Fyfe). Lightman is also general editor of a monograph series titled Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, published by Pickering & Chatto.
If there was any single belief that characterized the Victorian era it was Christian belief. Religion pervaded social and political life to an extent almost unimaginable today. Yet this was also an age of major scientific progress and discovery. Ranging from Darwin's Origin of Species to Strauss's Life of Jesus, new techniques and approaches undermined faith in the literal truth of the Bible.
The essay traces the presence of science and scientists in the Victorian novel, and the relationships between science and the novel in methodology, cultural status, and literary form. It argues that we must think not in terms of “science” and “the novel,” but of sciences and novels. While natural history and especially Darwinism and its ...
31 de ene. de 2021 · It was a common belief of the Victorian era that women and men were fundamentally different and that a woman’s natural place was in the home. Many male scientists clung to this popular belief, even in the face of a growing movement pushing for female emancipation and woman suffrage. “Scientists could have felt no more threatened than other ...
2 de mar. de 2011 · Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. The introduction gives an extremely useful and very readable account of both science and literature as elements in the early Victorian obsession with information. Victorian-focused chapters center on Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor, Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke, and George Eliot’s The Mill on ...
AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTORIAN ENGLAND (1837–1901) Queen Victoria ruled Britain for over 60 years. During this long reign, the country acquired unprecedented power and wealth. Britain’s reach extended across the globe because of its empire, political stability, and revolutionary developments in transport and communication.
18 de feb. de 2022 · As a result, the village exhumed 19-year-old Mercy Brown on January 17, 1892. She would go on to inspire the character of Lucy Westenra in Stoker’s gothic novel. Before modern medicine, life was unpredictable, brutal, and, by extension, often short. Plagues were common, and the causes behind diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox, and ...
