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The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Martin Daunton
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-05-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means a
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Bernard Lightman
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-20 - Publisher: Routledge

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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite thei
Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Louise Miskell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advan
Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Shih-Wen Chen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: Routledge

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In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies
London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Takashi Ito
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one
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