2012 Victorian Science and Literature: Volumes 5-8

Description

First Edition

Four volumes of an eight-volume set, in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Part II, which includes volumes 5 to 8, of the eight-volume set 'Victorian Science and Literature' edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman. Volume 5 explores 'New Audiences for Science: Women, Children, Labourers' and is edited by Claire Brock; Volume 6 examines 'Science, Race and Imperialism' and is edited by Marwa Elshakry and Sujit Sivasundaram; Volume 7 concerns the subject of 'Science as Romance' and is edited by Ralph O'Connor; and Volume 8 explores 'Marginal and Occult Sciences' and is edited by Roger Luckhurst and Justin Sausman. Each volume contains a selection of essays or extracts on the chosen subject, including authors such as Henry Mayhew, Arthur Ransome, Charles Kingsley, Edward Forbes and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.