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Author:   Bernard Lightman ,  Bennett Zon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9780367228422

ISBN 10:   0367228424
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon Section I: Professional Validation Chapter 1. The Evolution of the Scientific Disciplines Bernard Lightman Chapter 2. Disciplining Terpsichore: Moves Towards the Study of Dance in Victorian Britain Theresa Jill Buckland Section II: University Education Chapter 3. Positivism and Early Chairs of Art History in Europe: 1860-1880 Barbara Larson Chapter 4. The Manchester School of History: Victorian Origins of a ‘Modernist’ Discipline H.S. Jones Section III: Society Journals Chapter 5. Un-gentlemanly Science: Rhetoric and Rivalry in the Codification of British Zoology, 1830-1840 David Lowther Chapter 6. The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt and British Anthropology in the 1860s Efram Sera-Shriar Section IV: Literary Genres Chapter 7. ‘A subject which is peculiarly adapted to all cyclists’: Popular Understandings of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth-Century Press Rachel Bryant Davies Chapter 8. Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child Psychology Roisín Laing Section V: Disciplinary Boundaries Chapter 9. Disentangling Antiquity: Classics and Theology in the Nineteenth Century Simon Goldhill Chapter 10. From Truth to Proof to Computer Problem: Of Mathematical Discipline and Epistemological Change Joan L. Richards Section VI: Interdisciplinarity Chapter 11. Middlemarch and the Limits of Interdisciplinarity Renata Kobetts Miller Chapter 12. All Arts Constantly Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline Bennett Zon Conclusion: Metapatterns, Metadisciplines Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon

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Bennett Zon is Professor of Music at Durham University, where he is founding director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Zon is a founding co-director of the International Network for Music Theology; founding co-owner of Nineteenth-Century JISCmail; and founding general editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review and the book series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Zon received his DPhil in Music History from Oxford University. Recent publications include Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture and Evolution and Victorian Culture (co-edited with Bernard Lightman). Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is currently President of the History of Science Society. Lightman received his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Brandeis University. His research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz).

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