The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 May 2005
- ISBN 9780197263266
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages434 pages
- Size 241x163x28 mm
- Weight 828 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.
MoreLong description:
This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria.
During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines that we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with oral examinations and personal contacts giving way to formal written tests. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period (knowledge often meant classifying and collecting); by the end, universities had taken on a new prominence. Knowledge exploded and Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications.
The concept of knowledge is complex and much debated, with a multiplicity of meanings and troubling relationships. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our consideration of these wider issues.
It is a solid book: following an expansive, though-provoking introduction by Martin Daunton, seventeen essays range across a spectrum of institutions, disciplines, geographies of diffusion, and modes of validation ... a valuable and shrewd collection: much knowledge, well organized.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Science in nineteenth-century England: plural configurations and singular politics
Classifying sciences: systematics and status in mid-Victorian natural history
Victorian social science: from singular to plural
Political economy and the science of economics in Victorian Britain
Reason and belief in Victorian mathematics
Victorian classics: sustaining the study of the ancient world
The evolution and dissemination of historical knowledge
Specialization and social utility: disciplining English studies
The organization of literary knowledge: the study of English in the late nineteenth century
'Old studies and new': the organization of knowledge in university curriculum
The promotion and constraints of knowledge: the changing structure of publishing in Victorian Britain
Libraries, knowledge and public identity
Measuring the world: exploration, empire and the reform of the Royal Geographical Society, 1874-93
Civic cultures and civic colleges in Victorian England
Intimacy, imagination and the inner dialetics of knowledge communities: the Synthetic Society, 1896-1908
The Academy abroad: the nineteenth-century origin of the British School at Athens
The strange late birth of the British Academy
