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Book Review
Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age
2015
Overview
James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age ((Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2014) vii-xiii+306 $30 In Visions of Science, James Secord draws together in an elegant and convincing argument a number of non-fiction books published between 1828 and 1834, a period that is often neglected in the shift from Romanticism to the Victorian age. Yet the 1820s and 30s were felt to be dangerous times by many of those living through them: the rise in workers' militancy and distress, the rapid advance of machines substituting for human hands, the debates concerning education and its potential to undermine or to improve society as at present constituted - all these discussions were felt along the pulses in daily life. The seven books that Professor Secord brings together into something like a new genre are quite various, but each of them reflects on the present state of the sciences, their interrelations, and their power to open a fuller understanding of the works of the Creator.
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Marilyn Gaull,The University of Chicago Press,The Wordsworth Circle
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