The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, IL :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the X Club, 1864-92. Nine men who wanted to change the world ; Historians of the X Club ; Introducing this book
- Part one. Origins and ambitions. Cultures of science in early Victorian England. Gentlemanly London science ; Science for self-improvement : Frankland, Tyndall, and Hirst ; Spencer and Huxley : the science and politics of rational dissent ; Spottiswoode at Oxford : a liberal education for a Christian gentleman ; Scientific aspirations, social status, and religious beliefs
- Making careers. Finding employment : patronage and pluralism ; Scientific expertise and gentlemanly status ; A taste for campaigning ; Friends
- Speaking for nature. Defending Darwin and expanding the domain of nature ; Alliances : naturalistic science and liberal theology ; The science of man : ethnologists against anthropologists ; The reader : a liberal alliance and its collapse ; Friends and conspirators
- Part two. The X Club established. Organizing science. Specialist societies ; The British association for the advancement of science : representing science to the nation ; The Royal Society : power and its symbolic uses ; Men of weight, of craft, and of party
- Public money and the public good. Science in the curriculum I : examination successes ; Science in the curriculum II : lobbying failures ; Money and advice : the reciprocal relations of science and government ; Hirst's career : higher education and London life ; Good and influential men
- Claiming cultural authority. Self-images ; Science militant ; Insiders : scientific men at home among the social elite ; Pulpits for science ; The rhetoric of scientific authority ; Sunday Lecture Societies : the politics of lay sermons ; Cultural leaders
- Retrospective : the life, work, and times of the X Club. Phases of power and friendship, 1860-1900 ; The X Club program : the authority and independence of science and scientific men ; Victorian science and Victorian culture.