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Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science

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SKU: 9780198540533

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Description

It is rare nowadays to come upon an undeservedly neglected figure from Britain's Victorian age, but Hugh Miller (1802-56), the subject of this book, is certainly one such. Admired in his time by such celebrated thinkers as Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller's many books on science, literature and religion sold in tens of thousands of copies, winning admirers around the world. This collection of essays offers the first modern assessment of Miller, his life and work, and reveals one of the most fascinating and baffling men of his day. This book is intended for Student and professional : historians of 19th century Science, social historians and labour historians, historians of nineteenth century Britain.Table of ContentPreface. 1: Bonneted Mechanic and Narrative Hero: the Self-Modelling of Hugh Miller. 2: Geologist from Cromarty. 3: The Natural Historian as Antiquary of the World: Hugh Miller and the Hieroglyphs of Geology. 4: Palaeontology and Theodicy: Religion, Politics and the Asterolepsis of Stromeness. 5: Like Minds: The God of Hugh Miller. 6: Hugh Miller, the Disruption and the Free Church of Scotland. 7: The Fallen Meteor: Hugh Miller and Local Tradition. 8: Miller's Improvement: A Classic Tale of Self Advancement?. 9: 'Stand and unfold yourself: My Schools and Schoolmasters. 10: Miller's Madness. 11: Hugh Miller's Contribution to the Witness: 1840-1856. A Bibliography of Hugh Miller. Index

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198540533
Author: Michael Shortland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Binding: hardcover
Condition: new
Pages: 411
Language: english
Country of Origin: United States
Weight (g): 400
Height (mm): 30
Length (mm): 198
Width (mm): 132

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