Victorian Sensation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Sensation write by James A. Secord. This book was released on 2003-09-20. Victorian Sensation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Victorian Sensation
Victorian Sensation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Sensation write by Michael Diamond. This book was released on 2004. Victorian Sensation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science write by David Sweeney Coombs. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature’s seemingly magical power to conjure up tastes, sights, touches, and sounds from the austere medium of print. In Victorian literature, science, and philosophy, the parallel between reading and perceiving gave rise to momentous debates about description as a mode of knowledge as well as how, and even whether, reading about the world differs from experiencing it firsthand. Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the "hard surfaces of life."
From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
From Wollstonecraft to Stoker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Wollstonecraft to Stoker write by Marilyn Brock. This book was released on 2014-01-10. From Wollstonecraft to Stoker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.
Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction
Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction write by Jessica Cox. This book was released on 2019-11-11. Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
