Victorian Sensation
The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
624 pages, 155 halftones 6 x 9
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2001, 2003
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226744100
Published February 2001
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226744117
Published October 2003
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: Devils or Angels
Part One: Romances of Creation
1. A Great Sensation
2. Steam Reading
3. Evolution for the People
4. Marketing Speculation
Part Two: Geographies of Reading
5. Conversations on Creation
6. Science in the City
7. Church in Danger
8. The Holy War
Part Three: Spiritual Journeys
9. Sinners and Saints
10. Self-Development
11. Anonymity
Part Four: Futures of Science
12. The Paradoxes of Gentility
13. Grub Street Science
14. Mammon and the New Reformation
Epilogue: Lifting the Veil
References
Illustration Credits
Index
Awards
- PROSE Book Award
- SHARP DeLong Book History Prize
- Pfizer Award for a Distinguished Book in the History of
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