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Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Transactions and Encounters Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Author:Roger Luckhurst, Josephine McDonagh Transactions and Encounters examines a diverse range of emerging technologies in the Victorian era. Such topics are explored as the popular craze for microscopes; the uncanny possibilities of the telephone; the jostling for authority between literature and science, with scenes by and including Dickens and Lewes, Huxley and Gosse; the weir... more »d imaginary around androgynous barnacles; and the competing versions of a mind-reading act. These essays combine to produce an invigorating and involving attempt to re-cast understandings of 19th century encounters between the cultural and scientific spheres.« less