{"product_id":"victorian-scientific-naturalism-bernard-lightman-9780226109503","title":"Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity","description":"\u003ci\u003eVictorian Scientific Naturalism\u003c\/i\u003e examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists--led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall--sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics. In \u003ci\u003eVictorian Scientific Naturalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism--as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth century--that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernard Lightman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022610950X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226109503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.41h x 6.17w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 470","brand":"Bernard Lightman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447598657791,"sku":"9780226109503","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05e5a08d-7e4a-4d70-b65e-2feed89d3781.jpg?v=1777233761","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/victorian-scientific-naturalism-bernard-lightman-9780226109503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}