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    Passages in the invention of the psyche: mind-reading in London 1881-4

    Luckhurst, Roger (2002) Passages in the invention of the psyche: mind-reading in London 1881-4. In: Luckhurst, Roger and McDonagh, J. (eds.) Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 117-150. ISBN 9780719059117.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: Transactions and Encounters brings together essays by leading scholars exploring the complex interface of culture and science in the Victorian era. Long before the so-called 'two-cultures' conflict, Victorians encountered science in unpredictable ways, being surprised and enchanted as much as threatened by emerging technologies or the claims of newly professional scientists. Transactions and Encounters examines a diverse range of such moments: the popular craze for microscopes; the uncanny possibilities of the telephone; the jostling for authority between literature and science, with scenes by and including Dickens and Lewes, Huxley and Gosse; the weird imaginary around androgynous barnacles; and the competing versions of a mind-reading act. These essays combine to produce an invigorating and involving attempt to re-cast understandings of nineteenth-century encounters between the cultural and scientific spheres.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2014 09:16
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:35
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111

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