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Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

By James A , Secord

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN
9780226158259, 0226744108, 0226744116, 022615825X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
92 MB (96529393 bytes)
Pages
645 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue: Devils or Angels -- Part One: Romances of Creation -- 1. A Great Sensation -- 2. Steam Reading -- 3. Evolution for the People -- 4. Marketing Speculation -- Part Two: Geographies of Reading -- 5. Conversations on Creation -- 6. Science in the City -- 7. Church in Danger -- 8. The Holy War -- Part Three: Spiritual Journeys -- 9. Sinners and Saints -- 10. Self-Development -- 11. Anonymity -- Part Four: Futures of Science -- 12. The Paradoxes of Gentility -- 13. Grub Street Science -- 14. Mammon and the New Reformation -- Epilogue: Lifting the Veil -- References -- Credits -- Index.

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