Gowan Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gowan Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gowan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taking the Brake Off
To a graduate student in the mid-1990s, the so-called ‘theory wars’ of the previous couple of decades seemed no longer especially relevant. Instead, there was an array of innovative interdisciplinary approaches that, while evidently underpinned by theoretical insights, also allowed a greater sensitivity to history and material culture. Perhaps because these methods were relatively new, having emerged only in the previous decade, they didn’t neces…
Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design
Charles Dickens's novels only occasionally feature images of prehistoric creatures. There is, of course, the famous “elephantine lizard. . .waddling. . .up Holborn Hill” in the opening scenes of Bleak House (1852–53), which, as is brilliantly captured in Tom Gauld's recent cartoon “Fragments of Dickens's Lost Novel ‘A Megalosaur's Progress’” (2011), has become a kind of icon of Dickens's entire fictional oeuvre (Figure 1). But beyond Bleak House …
Constructing Scientific Communities
‘I like all scientific periodicals’, Charles Darwin told Joseph Hooker in November 1869. His fondness for such publications seemed to have no bounds, and, unlike more snooty contemporaries like Hooker, he avidly read even those journals he considered ‘rather ephemeral’, including such self-consciously demotic titles as the Popular Science Review and Scientific Opinion. A particular favourite of Darwin’s was the Magazine of Natural History, which …
Dealing with Darwin
Darwin decentred
The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
Ten years ago Sally Shuttleworth and I guest-edited a special number of the journal Victorian Poetry entitled ‘Science and Victorian Poetry’. In the introduction, we noted that while, since the early 1980s, it had become widely accepted that the realist novel's aesthetic ideals of detachment and self-abnegation were, in George Levine's memorable phrase, the ‘cultural twin to the project of Victorian science’, the more expressive and personal idea…
Paleontology in Parts
While a great deal of scholarly attention has been given to the publication of serialized novels in early Victorian Britain, there has been hardly any consideration of the no less widespread practice of issuing scientific works in parts and numbers. What scholarship there has been has insisted that scientific part-works operated on entirely different principles from the strategies for maintaining readerly interest that were being developed by ser…
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Reviewed by: Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century Gowan Dawson (bio) Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century, by Martin Willis; pp. viii + 272. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006, $29.00. The interrelations of literature and science have, over the last couple of decades, become one of the most productive …
Literature and Science under the Microscope
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
The article offers some reflections on the main findings of the ‘Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical’ (SciPer) project, as well as giving an overview of the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship in this area. It argues that the periodical press, as the dominant form of cultural circulation in the period, provides perhaps the most important source for understanding the cultural roles of science in nineteenth-century Britain. It a…
Stranger than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction: Spiritualism, Intertextuality, and William Makepeace Thackeray's Editorship of the Cornhill Magazine, 1860–62 Get access Gowan Dawson Gowan Dawson 1University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2002, Pages 220–238, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2002.7.2.220 Published: 01 January 2002
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
Constructing Scientific Communities
‘I like all scientific periodicals’, Charles Darwin told Joseph Hooker in November 1869. His fondness for such publications seemed to have no bounds, and, unlike more snooty contemporaries like Hooker, he avidly read even those journals he considered ‘rather ephemeral’, including such self-consciously demotic titles as the Popular Science Review and Scientific Opinion. A particular favourite of Darwin’s was the Magazine of Natural History, which …
Paleontology in Parts
While a great deal of scholarly attention has been given to the publication of serialized novels in early Victorian Britain, there has been hardly any consideration of the no less widespread practice of issuing scientific works in parts and numbers. What scholarship there has been has insisted that scientific part-works operated on entirely different principles from the strategies for maintaining readerly interest that were being developed by ser…
Literature and Science under the Microscope
Stranger than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction: Spiritualism, Intertextuality, and William Makepeace Thackeray's Editorship of the Cornhill Magazine, 1860–62 Get access Gowan Dawson Gowan Dawson 1University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2002, Pages 220–238, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2002.7.2.220 Published: 01 January 2002
Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design
Charles Dickens's novels only occasionally feature images of prehistoric creatures. There is, of course, the famous “elephantine lizard. . .waddling. . .up Holborn Hill” in the opening scenes of Bleak House (1852–53), which, as is brilliantly captured in Tom Gauld's recent cartoon “Fragments of Dickens's Lost Novel ‘A Megalosaur's Progress’” (2011), has become a kind of icon of Dickens's entire fictional oeuvre (Figure 1). But beyond Bleak House …
Dealing with Darwin
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
The article offers some reflections on the main findings of the ‘Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical’ (SciPer) project, as well as giving an overview of the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship in this area. It argues that the periodical press, as the dominant form of cultural circulation in the period, provides perhaps the most important source for understanding the cultural roles of science in nineteenth-century Britain. It a…
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
Stranger than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction: Spiritualism, Intertextuality, and William Makepeace Thackeray's Editorship of the Cornhill Magazine, 1860–62 Get access Gowan Dawson Gowan Dawson 1University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2002, Pages 220–238, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2002.7.2.220 Published: 01 January 2002
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
The article offers some reflections on the main findings of the ‘Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical’ (SciPer) project, as well as giving an overview of the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship in this area. It argues that the periodical press, as the dominant form of cultural circulation in the period, provides perhaps the most important source for understanding the cultural roles of science in nineteenth-century Britain. It a…
Literature and Science under the Microscope
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Reviewed by: Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century Gowan Dawson (bio) Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century, by Martin Willis; pp. viii + 272. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006, $29.00. The interrelations of literature and science have, over the last couple of decades, become one of the most productive …
Paleontology in Parts
While a great deal of scholarly attention has been given to the publication of serialized novels in early Victorian Britain, there has been hardly any consideration of the no less widespread practice of issuing scientific works in parts and numbers. What scholarship there has been has insisted that scientific part-works operated on entirely different principles from the strategies for maintaining readerly interest that were being developed by ser…
The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
Ten years ago Sally Shuttleworth and I guest-edited a special number of the journal Victorian Poetry entitled ‘Science and Victorian Poetry’. In the introduction, we noted that while, since the early 1980s, it had become widely accepted that the realist novel's aesthetic ideals of detachment and self-abnegation were, in George Levine's memorable phrase, the ‘cultural twin to the project of Victorian science’, the more expressive and personal idea…
Darwin decentred
Constructing Scientific Communities
‘I like all scientific periodicals’, Charles Darwin told Joseph Hooker in November 1869. His fondness for such publications seemed to have no bounds, and, unlike more snooty contemporaries like Hooker, he avidly read even those journals he considered ‘rather ephemeral’, including such self-consciously demotic titles as the Popular Science Review and Scientific Opinion. A particular favourite of Darwin’s was the Magazine of Natural History, which …
Dealing with Darwin
Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design
Charles Dickens's novels only occasionally feature images of prehistoric creatures. There is, of course, the famous “elephantine lizard. . .waddling. . .up Holborn Hill” in the opening scenes of Bleak House (1852–53), which, as is brilliantly captured in Tom Gauld's recent cartoon “Fragments of Dickens's Lost Novel ‘A Megalosaur's Progress’” (2011), has become a kind of icon of Dickens's entire fictional oeuvre (Figure 1). But beyond Bleak House …
Taking the Brake Off
To a graduate student in the mid-1990s, the so-called ‘theory wars’ of the previous couple of decades seemed no longer especially relevant. Instead, there was an array of innovative interdisciplinary approaches that, while evidently underpinned by theoretical insights, also allowed a greater sensitivity to history and material culture. Perhaps because these methods were relatively new, having emerged only in the previous decade, they didn’t neces…
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