Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

Victoria Carroll

Science and Eccentricity

Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

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The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.

"'Carroll persuasively establishes the historical specificity of eccentricity to nineteenth-century scientific, literary, and popular culture, as well as the formative way eccentricity functioned in relation to scientific disciplines'"

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Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Defining Eccentricity in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
pp 11-44

2 - Performers, Audiences and Eccentric Identities: William Martin and the World turned Upside Down
pp 45-86

3 - ‘Beyond the Pale of Ordinary Criticism’: Literary Eccentricity and the Fossil Books of Thomas Hawkins
pp 87-124

4 - Eccentricity on Display: Visiting Charles Waterton, Traveller, Naturalist and Celebrity
pp 125-162

Conclusion
pp 163-178

Notes
pp 179-214

Works Cited
pp 215-242

Index
pp 243-254

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