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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Strange science
    sub title: investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age
  name:
    name part: Karpenko, Lara Pauline
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Claggett, Shalyn R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  table of contents: Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms of ecological society / Lynn Voskuil ; 2. Discriminating the "minuter beauties of nature" : botany as natural theology in a Victorian medical school / Meegan Kennedy ; 3. "A perfect world of wonders" : Marianne North and the pleasures and pursuits of botany / Narin Hassan ; 4. Killer plants of the late nineteenth century / Elizabeth Chang -- Part II. Strange bodies : rethinking physiology. 5. Reading through deafness : Francis Galton and the strange science of psychophysics / Danielle Coriale ; 6. Performing phonographic physiology / James Emmott ; 7. "So extraordinary a bond" : mesmerism and sympathetic identification in Charles Adams's Notting Hill mystery / Lara Karpenko ; 8. Immoral science in The picture of Dorian Gray / Suzanne Raitt -- Part III. Strange energies : reconceptualizing the physical universe. 9. Chaotic fictions : nonlinear effects in Victorian science and literature / Barri J. Gold ; 10. The Victorian occult atom : Annie Besant and clairvoyant atomic research / Sumangala Bhattacharya ; 11. Inductive science, literary theory, and the occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "suggestive" system / Anna Maria Jones ; 12. Psychical research and the fantastic science of spirits / L. Anne Delgado ; 13. The energy of belief : The unseen universe and the spirit of thermodynamics / Tamara Ketabgian -- Contributors -- Index.
  note: Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors.
  note: "With a foreword by Dame Gillian Beer"--Cover.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: Victoria, 1837-1901
  subject:
    topic: Parapsychology
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: Q127.G5 S77 2017
  classification: 509.41/09034
  identifier: 9780472130177 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 047213017X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780472122455 (e-book)
  identifier: 2016035928
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160816
    record change date: 20170926115217.0
    record identifier: in00003834153