Victorian science in context / edited by Bernard Lightman.

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

viii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Defining knowledge: an introduction / George Levine -- The construction of orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early Victorian life sciences / Alison Winter -- The probable and the possible in early Victorian England / Joan L. Richards -- Victorian economics and the science of mind / Margaret Schabas -- Biology and politics: defining the boundaries / Martin Fichman -- Redrawing the boundaries: Darwinian science and Victorian women intellectuals / Evelleen Richards -- Satire and science in Victorian culture / James G. Paradis -- Ordering nature: revisioning Victorian science culture / Barbara T. Gates -- 'The voices of nature': popularizing Victorian science / Bernard Lightman -- Science and the secularization of Victorian images of race / Douglas A. Lorimer -- Elegant recreations? Configuring science writing for women / Ann B. Shteir -- Strange new worlds of space and time: late Victorian science and science fiction / Paul Fayter -- Practicing science: an introduction / Frank M. Turner -- Wallace's Malthusian moment: the common context revisited / James Moore -- Doing science in a global empire: cable telegraphy and electrical physics in Victorian Britain / Bruce J. Hunt -- Zoological nomenclature and the empire of Victorian science / Harriet Ritvo -- Remains of the day: early Victorians in the field / Jane Camerini -- Photography as witness, detective, and impostor: visual representation in Victorian science / Jennifer Tucker -- Instrumentation and interpretation: managing and representing the working environments of Victorian experimental science / Graeme J.N. Gooday -- Metrology, metrication, and Victorian values / Simon Schaffer.

Includes index and bibliography.