Culture And Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

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Contents: Introduction, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes,Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham Women, Children and Gender: Green-stocking or blue? Science in three women's magazines, 1800-50, Ann B. Shteir The 'empty-headed beauty' and the 'sweet girl graduate': women's science education in Punch, 1860-90, Suzanne Le-May Sheffield Making socialists or murdering to dissect? Natural history and child socialization in the Labour Prophet and Labour Leader, Caroline Sumpter Religious Audiences: The periodical as barometer: spiritual measurement and the Evangelical Magazine, Sujit Sivasundaram Periodicals and the making of reading audiences for science in early 19th-century Britain: the Youth's Magazine, 1828-37, Jonathan R. Topham Periodicals and book series: complementary aspects of a publisher's mission, Aileen Fyfe Friends of science? The role of science in Quaker periodicals, Geoffrey Cantor Naturalizing the Supernatural: Almanacs and the profits of natural knowledge, Katharine Anderson 'In the natural course of physical things': ghosts and science in Charles Dickens' All the Year Round, Louise Henson W.T. Stead's occult economies, Roger Luckhurst Contesting New Technologies: Science, industry, and nationalism in the Dublin Penny Journal, Elizabeth Tilley Representing 'A century of inventions': 19th-century technology and Victorian Punch, Richard Noakes The view from the hills: environment and technology in Victorian periodicals, Harriet Ritvo 'I never will have the electric light in my house': Alice Gordon and the gendered periodical representation of a contentious new technology, Graeme J.N. Gooday Professionalization and Journalism: The making of an editor: the case of William Crookes, William H. Brock Knowlege confronts Nature: Richard Proctor and popular science periodicals, Bernard Lightman 'Within the bounds of science': redirecting controversies to Nature, Peter C. Kjoergaard Scientific authority and scientific contro