Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature

, by Geoffrey Cantor , Gowan Dawson , Graeme Gooday , Richard Noakes , Sally Shuttleworth , Jonathan R. Topham

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ISBN: 9780521049788 | 0521049784
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/3/2007

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Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

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List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Genres
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain
Punch, science and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain
The Cornhill Magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain
The Boy's Own Paper, science, and late-Victorian juvenile magazines
The Review of Reviews and the new journalism in late Victorian Britain
Themes
Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science'
Scientific biography in the periodical press
Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late Victorian periodical
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature

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