The Voice of Science : British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America /

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"For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science inc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Finnegan, Diarmid A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Speeches, addresses, etc., English.
Scientists.
Lectures and lecturing.
Intellectual life.
Communication in science.
British.
British > United States > History > 19th century.
Scientists > Great Britain > Biography.
Speeches, addresses, etc., English > 19th century > History and criticism.
Lectures and lecturing > United States > History > 19th century.
Communication in science > History > 19th century.
United States.
Great Britain.
United States > Intellectual life > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > History > 19th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Science lectures in an age of oratory
  • Science, speech and character : John Tyndall's lectures on light
  • Reason's rhetor : the scientific oratory of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Richard Proctor and the tempo of science
  • Alfred Russel Wallace, anticelebrity
  • Evolution's evangelist : the American addresses of Henry Drummond
  • Conclusion: Science, historically speaking.

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