{"product_id":"victorian-interdisciplinarity-and-the-sciences-rethinking-the-specialization-thesis-hardcover","title":"Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard Lightman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEfram Sera-Shriar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe specialization thesis--the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines--has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization and the actual practice of knowledge sharing across disciplines during the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Lightman\u003c\/b\u003e is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of\u003ci\u003e Rethinking History and Science and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eScience Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIdentity in a Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e. He also serves as a general editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence of John Tyndall\u003c\/i\u003e and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEfram Sera-Shriar\u003c\/b\u003e is a historical anthropologist who specializes in Victorian science. He is associate professor in English studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he teaches the history and culture of the English-speaking world. Sera-Shriar is the author of \u003ci\u003ePsychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCredible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871 \u003c\/i\u003eand senior editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence of John Tyndall\u003c\/i\u003e series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.06 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697324003424,"sku":"9780822948148","price":105.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/eecde0f4742c8a46aeb9a3db86d992c1.webp?v=1775831179","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/victorian-interdisciplinarity-and-the-sciences-rethinking-the-specialization-thesis-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}