1st Edition
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Introduction
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon
Section I: Professional Validation
Chapter 1. The Evolution of the Scientific Disciplines
Bernard Lightman
Chapter 2. Disciplining Terpsichore: Moves Towards the Study of Dance in Victorian Britain
Theresa Jill Buckland
Section II: University Education
Chapter 3. Positivism and Early Chairs of Art History in Europe: 1860-1880
Barbara Larson
Chapter 4. The Manchester School of History: Victorian Origins of a ‘Modernist’ Discipline
H.S. Jones
Section III: Society Journals
Chapter 5. Un-gentlemanly Science: Rhetoric and Rivalry in the Codification of British Zoology, 1830-1840
David Lowther
Chapter 6. The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt and British Anthropology in the 1860s
Efram Sera-Shriar
Section IV: Literary Genres
Chapter 7. ‘A subject which is peculiarly adapted to all cyclists’: Popular Understandings of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Rachel Bryant Davies
Chapter 8. Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child Psychology
Roisín Laing
Section V: Disciplinary Boundaries
Chapter 9. Disentangling Antiquity: Classics and Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Simon Goldhill
Chapter 10. From Truth to Proof to Computer Problem: Of Mathematical Discipline and Epistemological Change
Joan L. Richards
Section VI: Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 11. Middlemarch and the Limits of Interdisciplinarity
Renata Kobetts Miller
Chapter 12. All Arts Constantly Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as Interdiscipline
Bennett Zon
Conclusion: Metapatterns, Metadisciplines
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon
Biography
Bennett Zon is Professor of Music at Durham University, where he is founding director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Zon is a founding co-director of the International Network for Music Theology; founding co-owner of Nineteenth-Century JISCmail; and founding general editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review and the book series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Zon received his DPhil in Music History from Oxford University. Recent publications include Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture and Evolution and Victorian Culture (co-edited with Bernard Lightman).
Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is currently President of the History of Science Society. Lightman received his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Brandeis University. His research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz).
