'That Victorian Science': Huxley's Physiography and Its Impact on Geography

1975 ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Stoddart
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Science

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Goldhill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Victorian Art ◽  
Victorian Science ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Nineteenth Century Novels

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? This book is an exploration of how ancient Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, the book examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, it demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, the book addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction—specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire—it discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, it demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

RUSKIN, DARWIN, AND LOOKING BENEATH SURFACES

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelin Krieg
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Victorian Science ◽  
The Way ◽  
Desire To Change

John Ruskin and Charles Darwinshared a desire to change the way their readers looked at both nature and art. However, when considering them together, we typically remember their failure to see eye to eye on man's place in nature. Examining Ruskin's responses to Darwin's work, sexual selection in particular, or Ruskin's late dissatisfaction with Victorian science more generally, scholars have emphasized their conflicting worldviews. Yet this tendency to focus on conceptual disagreement fails to consider a shared intellectual background between the two men: the science of geology.

Victorian Science in Context

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Frederick B. Churchill ◽  
Bernard Lightman
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Science

Of medals and men: a reward system in Victorian science, 1826-1914

1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-105 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Assistance ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Victorian Science

Though discoveries in science may be the result of genius or accident, and though the most important discoveries may have been made by individuals without public assistance, the progress of such discoveries may at all times be materially accelerated by a proper application of public encouragement. (I).

Savage numbers and the evolution of civilization in Victorian prehistory

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. BARANY
Keyword(s):  
Human Sciences ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Victorian Science

AbstractThis paper identifies ‘savage numbers’ – number-like or number-replacing concepts and practices attributed to peoples viewed as civilizationally inferior – as a crucial and hitherto unrecognized body of evidence in the first two decades of the Victorian science of prehistory. It traces the changing and often ambivalent status of savage numbers in the period after the 1858–1859 ‘time revolution’ in the human sciences by following successive reappropriations of an iconic 1853 story from Francis Galton's African travels. In response to a fundamental lack of physical evidence concerning prehistoric men, savage numbers offered a readily available body of data that helped scholars envisage great extremes of civilizational lowliness in a way that was at once analysable and comparable, and anecdotes like Galton's made those data vivid and compelling. Moreover, they provided a simple and direct means of conceiving of the progressive scale of civilizational development, uniting societies and races past and present, at the heart of Victorian scientific racism.

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