Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life

ISBN: 9780521068789 出版年：1993 页码：384 Frank M Turner Cambridge University Press

Preface Part I. Shifting Boundaries: 1. The religious and the secular in Victorian Britain 2. Cultural apostasy and the foundations of Victorian intellectual life 3. The crisis of faith and the faith that was lost 4. The secularization of the social vision of British natural theology Part II. Science and the Wider Culture: 5. Victorian scientific naturalism and Thomas Carlyle 6. Rainfall, plagues, and the Prince of Wales 7. The Victorian conflict between science and religion: a professional dimension 8. Public science in Britain: 1880-1919 Part III. Moderns and Ancients: 9. British politics and the demise of the Roman public: 1700-1939 10. Ancient materialism and modern science: Lucretius among the Victorians 11. Virgil in Victorian classical contexts 12. The triumph of idealism in Victorian classical studies Index.