Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature,                  with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a                  growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important                  medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scientific advance in                  the nineteenth century was trumpeted and analyzed in periodicals ranging from                  intellectual quarterlies such as the Edinburgh Review to popular weeklies like the                  Mirror of Literature, from religious periodicals such as the Evangelical Magazine to                  the atheistic Oracle of Reason. Scientific articles appeared side by side with the                  latest fiction or political reporting, while articles on nonscientific topics and                  serialized novels invoked scientific theories or used analogies drawn from                  science.The essays collected in Science Serialized examine the variety of ways in                  which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to both general                  and specialized readerships. They explore the role of scientific controversy in the                  press and the cultural politics of publication. Subject range from the presentation                  of botany in women's magazines to the highly public dispute between Darwin and                  Samuel Butler, and from discussions of the mind-body problem to those of energy                  physics. Contributors include leading scholars in the fields of history of science                  and literature: Ann B. Shteir, Jonathan Topham, Frank A. J. L. James, Roger Smith,                  Graeme Gooday, Crosbie Smith, Ian Higginson, Gillian Beer, Bernard Lightman, Helen                  Small, Gowan Dawson, Jonathan Smith, James G. Paradis, and Harriet Ritvo.

Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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