Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation / (Record no. 2097)
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| fixed length control field | 02306nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780226744117 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 576.8094 |
| Item number | SEC |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Secord, James A. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | James A. Secord |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chicago : |
| Name of publisher | University of Chicago Press, |
| Year of publication | 2000. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xix, 624 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began." "In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print." "Written and based on research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted."--Jacket. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Vestiges of the natural history of creation. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Biological Evolution. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Transit Campus | Transit Campus | Fiction | 26/10/2021 | 576.8094 SEC | 004611 | 26/10/2021 | Books |