Earth on Show

Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

Autor: Ralph O'Connor

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology - and its claims that the earth had a long and colorf...

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Autor

Ralph O'Connor

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2007

Pagini

542

EAN

9780226616681

ISBN

0226616681

Enbook ID

04548093

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

1176

Dimensiuni

188 x 261 x 40

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology - and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history - was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O'Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Biblereading public. Savvy science writer, O'Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors - including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets - borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O'Connor proves that geology's success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, "The Earth on Show" rethinks the relationship between geology and literature in the nineteenth century.

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