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Revisiting the Huxley-Wilberforce debate through the periodical press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4392670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund (0000-0002-6659-6105, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 429-453 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0073-2753 • E-ISSN: 1753-8564 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0073275314559330 |
| OpenAlex | W2000919153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The debate between the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, and the scientific naturalist, Thomas Huxley, at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to represent an iconic moment in the history of the relationship between science and religion. This article uses the digitalized databases of nineteenth-century British periodicals to re-examine the reception of the Huxley-Wilberforce debate. By combining methods and insights from digital humanities with the vast literature on the Huxley-Wilberforce debate, and the secondary literature on science and print culture, I show that the narrative of Huxley's victory over Wilberforce was not the prevalent story told in the press immediately after the event occurred. Rather, this study shows that there is still much to be learned from looking at the ways in which the press influenced nineteenth-century understandings of iconic moments in the history of science, even in cases that have been well examined, such as the Huxley-Wilberforce debate
Art · Art history · Epistemology · History of science · Literature · Narrative · Naturalism · Periodical literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Victory · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |