Author: Thomas HAWKINS (F.G.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Lost Angel and the History of the Old Adamites, Found Written on the Pillars of Seth
Author: Thomas HAWKINS (F.G.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Lost Angel, and the History of the Old Adamites
Author: Thomas HawkinsThe Lost Angel, and The History of the Old Adamites
Author: Thomas HawkinsScience and Eccentricity
Author: Victoria CarrollPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
The Earth on Show
Author: Ralph O'ConnorPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226616703
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author: Gentleman's Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward CavePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description