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investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age
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.
Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors.
"With a foreword by Dame Gillian Beer"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9780472130177 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
047213017X (hardcover : acid-free paper)