Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

1986. SCHUMMER, Joachim. “Historical Roots of
the ‘Mad Scientist’: Chemists in Nineteenth-Century
Literature.” Ambix 53 (2006): 99–127.
1987. SNYDER, Laura J. “Sherlock Holmes: Scientific
Detective.” Endeavour 28 (2004): 104–108.
1988. SOLOMON, Jennifer Welch. “The Body Made
Visible: Scientific Practices of Seeing and Literary
Naturalism.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/11 (2005): 4201.
Dissertation at the University of Maryland, College Park,
2004. Adviser: Auerbach, Jonathan. UMI pub. no. 3153140.
267 pp. Examines discussions among physiologists and
sociologists in the work of naturalist writers.
1989. SYME, Alison Mairi. “Hedgewhores, Wagtails,
Cockatrices, Whipsters: John Singer Sargent
and his Coterie of Nature’s Artful Dodgers.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/05 (2005): 1533.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2005. Advisers: Lajer-
Burcharth, Ewa, Yve-Alain Bois, and Elaine Scarry. UMI
pub. no. 3174047. 403 pp.
1990. VATAN, Florence. “Les Maîtres du sensible :
L’esthétique de Baudelaire et de Flaubert à la lumière
des conceptions médicales de leur époque.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 65/03 (2004): 957.
Dissertation at the University of Chicago, 2004. Adviser:
Desan, Philippe. UMI pub. no. 3125646. 371 pp.
1991. WORDEN, Joel Daniel. “The Galapagos in
American Consciousness: American Fiction Writers’
Responses to Darwinism.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/07
(2006): 2582.
Dissertation at the University of Delaware, 2005. Adviser:
Lemay, J. A. Leo. UMI pub. no. 3181874. 225 pp. Looks
at works by Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, and Kurt
Vonnegut.
360-24. SCIENCE AND MEDIA; COMMUNICATION
OF SCIENCE
1992. BOARDMAN, Kay. “ ‘Charting the Golden
Stream’: Recent Work on Victorian Periodicals.”
Victorian Stud. 48 (2006): 505–517.
Essay review of Geoffrey CANTOR, Gowan DAWSON,
Graeme GOODAY, Richard NOAKES, Sally SHUTTLE-
WORTH, and Johnathan R. TOPHAM, Science in the Nineteenth
Century Periodical (2004).
1993. FARA, Patricia. “Michael Faraday, Media
Man.” Endeavour 30 (2006): 10–12.
On Faraday’s use of photography to promote science.
1994. FARA, Patricia. “Representing Revolution:
Icons of Industrialization.” Endeavour 30 (2006):
13–18.
1995. FYFE, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical
Popular Science Publishing in Victorian
Britain. (xiv + 325 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.)
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN:
0226276473.
Reviews: [ref. R322]
1996. HAMLIN, Christopher. “Games Editors Played
or Knowledge Readers Made?” Isis 96 (2005): 633–
642.
Essay review of Geoffrey CANTOR, Gowan DAWSON,
Graeme GOODAY, Richard NOAKES, Sally SHUTTLE-
WORTH, and Johnathan R. TOPHAM, Science in the Nineteenth
Century Periodical (2004); Geoffrey N. CANTOR and
Sally SHUTTLEWORTH (eds.), Science Serialized (2004);
Louise HENSON, Geoffrey CANTOR, Gowan DAWSON,
Richard NOAKES, Sally SHUTTLEWORTH, and Jonathan
360. Nineteenth century 97
R. TOPHAM (eds.), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-
Century Media (2004).
1997. HENTSCHEL, Klaus, and Ann HENTSCHEL.
“An Engraver in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Career
of Pierre Dulos.” French Hist. 15 (2001): 64–
102.
Dulos specialized in scientific illustrations for Memoires de
l’Académie des Sciences.
1998. MORUS, Iwan Rhys. “Seeing and Believing
Science.” Focus: Science and Visual Culture
[ref. 211]. Isis 97 (2006): 101–110.
Focuses on “visual scientific performances—such as magic
lantern shows, optical illusions, and public experiments” in
the 19th century. (from the abstract)
1999. NOAKES, Richard. “Report: Science in the
Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index.”
Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. Lond. 59 (2005): 317–318.
See Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical [ref. 48].
2000. RECTENWALD, Michael D. “The Publics of
Science: Periodicals and the Making of British Science,
1820–1860.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65 (2005):
3816.
Dissertation at Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. Adviser:
Klancher, Jon. UMI pub. no. 3149738. 413 pp.
360-25. SCIENCE AND POPULAR CULTURE
2001. BROWNE, Janet, and Sharon MESSENGER.
“Victorian Spectacle: Julia Pastrana, the Bearded and
Hairy Female.” Endeavour 27 (2003): 155–159.
2002. MITCHELL, Sarah. “Exhibiting Monstrosity:
Chang and Eng, the ‘Original’ Siamese Twins.”
Endeavour 27 (2003): 150–154.
2003. SECORD, James. “The Electronic Harvest.”
Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 38 (2005): 463–467.
Essay review of Geoffrey N. CANTOR and Sally SHUTTLE-
WORTH (eds.), Science Serialized (2004); Geoffrey CANTOR,
Gowan DAWSON, Graeme GOODAY, Richard NOAKES,
Sally SHUTTLEWORTH, and Johnathan R. TOPHAM, Science
in the Nineteenth Century Periodical (2004); Louise
HENSON, Geoffrey CANTOR, Gowan DAWSON, Richard
NOAKES, Sally SHUTTLEWORTH, and Jonathan R. TOPHAM
(eds.), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
(2004); Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
[ref. 48].
2004. THURS, Daniel Patrick. “Science in Popular
Culture: Contested Meanings and Cultural Authority
in America, 1832–1994.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04
(2004): 1515.
Dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004.
Adviser: Numbers, Ronald L. UMI pub. no. 3127990. 319
pp.
2005. VENKATESWARAN, T. V. “Representations of
Natural World in the Popular Science Texts during
Nineteenth Century Tamil Nadu.” Indian J. Hist. Sci.
39 (2004): 279–305.
360-26. SCIENCE AND RACE; SCIENCE AND
ETHNICITY
2006. HIGGINS, David. “Art, Genius and Racial
Theory in the Early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin
Robert Haydon.” Hist. Workshop J. 58 (2004): 17–40.
2007. OSBORNE, Michael A., and Richard F. FOGA-
RTY. “Views from the Periphery: Discourses of Race