Adelene Buckland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5654709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adelene Buckland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adelene |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckland |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7869-8603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charles Dickens, Man of Science
Though there is now a vast body of work detailing Dickens's extensive interests in contemporary science, technology, and medicine, still there is an overriding sense that Dickens was in energetic contact with scientific knowledge but had no precise role in its constitution, creation, or contestation. In this essay, I argue instead that Dickens was one of the most powerful communicators of scientific knowledge in the mid-Victorian period. Drawing …
Unity in Diversity: Constance Naden and the 1880s
Before she died in 1889, aged just 31, Constance Naden had devoted herself to studies in an astonishingly wide range of fields. In her six years at Mason Science College she had won the Paxton priz
A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. The collection aims to conceptualise some of the new directions that the field is taking fifty years afters the publication of this seminal work and to interrogate the category of the ‘common reader’ itself. What do we now mean by the term ‘common reader’? Is it still a useful term in book history and the sociology of literature? Though …
Introduction: Epic's Historic Form
Journal Article Introduction: Epic's Historic Form Get access Adelene Buckland, Adelene Buckland 1Newnham and King's Colleges, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anna Vaninskaya Anna Vaninskaya 1Newnham and King's Colleges, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 163–172, https://doi.org/…
Essay Review: Collectors of Worlds: Writing the History of Geohistory, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of…
Show and tell: The dramatic story of nineteenth-century geological science
The Poetry of Science”: Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian London
DESPITE THE WELL-ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONS between Dickens's novels and Victorian popular entertainment, and between Victorian show business and the display and dissemination of science, critics have not yet explored the possible links between scientific shows and Dickens's fiction. Work on Dickens and science has proliferated since George Levine's work in Darwin and the Novelists , but its central problem has been the fact that, as Francis O’Gorma…
A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. The collection aims to conceptualise some of the new directions that the field is taking fifty years afters the publication of this seminal work and to interrogate the category of the ‘common reader’ itself. What do we now mean by the term ‘common reader’? Is it still a useful term in book history and the sociology of literature? Though …
Show and tell: The dramatic story of nineteenth-century geological science
The Poetry of Science”: Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian London
DESPITE THE WELL-ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONS between Dickens's novels and Victorian popular entertainment, and between Victorian show business and the display and dissemination of science, critics have not yet explored the possible links between scientific shows and Dickens's fiction. Work on Dickens and science has proliferated since George Levine's work in Darwin and the Novelists , but its central problem has been the fact that, as Francis O’Gorma…
The Poetry of Science”: Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian London
DESPITE THE WELL-ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONS between Dickens's novels and Victorian popular entertainment, and between Victorian show business and the display and dissemination of science, critics have not yet explored the possible links between scientific shows and Dickens's fiction. Work on Dickens and science has proliferated since George Levine's work in Darwin and the Novelists , but its central problem has been the fact that, as Francis O’Gorma…
Introduction: Epic's Historic Form
Journal Article Introduction: Epic's Historic Form Get access Adelene Buckland, Adelene Buckland 1Newnham and King's Colleges, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anna Vaninskaya Anna Vaninskaya 1Newnham and King's Colleges, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 163–172, https://doi.org/…
Essay Review: Collectors of Worlds: Writing the History of Geohistory, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of…
Show and tell: The dramatic story of nineteenth-century geological science
A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. The collection aims to conceptualise some of the new directions that the field is taking fifty years afters the publication of this seminal work and to interrogate the category of the ‘common reader’ itself. What do we now mean by the term ‘common reader’? Is it still a useful term in book history and the sociology of literature? Though …
Unity in Diversity: Constance Naden and the 1880s
Before she died in 1889, aged just 31, Constance Naden had devoted herself to studies in an astonishingly wide range of fields. In her six years at Mason Science College she had won the Paxton priz
Charles Dickens, Man of Science
Though there is now a vast body of work detailing Dickens's extensive interests in contemporary science, technology, and medicine, still there is an overriding sense that Dickens was in energetic contact with scientific knowledge but had no precise role in its constitution, creation, or contestation. In this essay, I argue instead that Dickens was one of the most powerful communicators of scientific knowledge in the mid-Victorian period. Drawing …
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