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100 1 $aCarroll, Victoria$q(Victoria Louise)
245 10 $aScience and eccentricity :$bcollecting, writing and performing science for early nineteenth-century audiences /$cby Victoria Carroll.
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300 $ax, 254 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aScience and culture in the nineteenth century ;$vno. 4
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-241) and index.
505 0 $a1. Defining Eccentricity in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Eccentricity, Prophecy and the 'Spirit of the Age' -- Eccentric Biography: The Emergence of a Genre -- Challenging Boundaries -- Eccentricity, Gender and 'Separate Spheres' -- Lawlessness, Genius and the Cultivation of Eccentricity -- 2. Performers, Audiences and Eccentric Identities: William Martin and the World turned Upside Down -- William Martin, Natural Philosopher, Prophet and Poet -- The Lecturer and his Audiences -- The Martinian Philosophy in Context: Anti-Newtonian and Millenarian Traditions -- Science, Carnival and the Politics of Eccentricity -- 3. 'Beyond the Pale of Ordinary Criticism': Literary Eccentricity and the Fossil Books of Thomas Hawkins -- Collecting Sea-Dragons -- Anatomy and Genre -- Mixing Genres -- Genesis, Geology and the Perils of 'Enthusiasm' -- 4. Eccentricity on Display: Visiting Charles Waterton, Traveller, Naturalist and Celebrity -- Visiting Walton Hall: Expectations and Surprises -- Waterton's Taxidermy: Lifelike Wonders and Monstrous Hybrids -- Reading Stories, Reading Specimens -- The Eccentric Naturalist as Specimen and Celebrity.
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