Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
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Contents
Foreword - Dame Gillian Beer
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett
Part I. Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World
1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society - Lynn Voskuil
2. Discriminating the “Minuter Beauties of Nature”: Botany as Natural Theology in a Victorian Medical School - Meegan Kennedy
3. “A Perfect World of Wonders”: Marianne North and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany - Narin Hassan
4. Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century - Elizabeth Chang
Part II. Strange Bodies: Rethinking Physiology
5. Reading through Deafness: Francis Galton and the Strange Science of Psychophysics - Danielle Coriale
6. Performing Phonographic Physiology - James Emmott
7. “So Extraordinary a Bond”: Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams’s Notting Hill Mystery - Lara Karpenko
8. Immoral Science in The Picture of Dorian Gray - Suzanne Raitt
Part III. Strange Energies: Reconceptualizing the Physical Universe
9. Chaotic Fictions: Nonlinear Effects in Victorian Science and Literature - Barri J. Gold
10. The Victorian Occult Atom: Annie Besant and Clairvoyant Atomic Research - Sumangala Bhattacharya
11. Inductive Science, Literary Theory, and the Occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “Suggestive” System - Anna Maria Jones
12. Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits - L. Anne Delgado
13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics - Tamara Ketabgian
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