TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karpenko,Lara
AU  - Claggett,Shalyn
TI  - Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age 
SN  - 9780472130177
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of the Victorian public. Conversely, many branches of science that we now view as uncontroversial, such as physics and botany, were often associated with unorthodox methods of inquiry. Whether incorporated into mainstream scientific thought, or relegated by 21st century historians to the category of the pseudo- or even anti-scientific, these sciences generated conversation, enthusiasm, and controversy within Victorian society
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/7d926fbc-dbfa-4954-832b-0679ccfc8a39
ER  -