The X Club : power and authority in Victorian science /: power and authority in Victorian science. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ruth Barton.
• Authors: Barton, Ruth, 1945-
• Contents: Introduction: the X Club, 1864-92 -- Nine men who wanted to change the world -- Historians of the X Club -- Introducing this book -- Origins and ambitions. Cultures of science in early Victorian England ; Gentlemanly London science ; Science for self-improvement: Frankland, Tyndall, and Hirst ; Spencer and Huxley: the science and politics of rational dissent ; Spottiswoode at Oxford: a liberal education for a Christian gentleman ; Scientific aspirations, social status, and religious beliefs -- Making career. Finding employment: patronage and pluralism ; Scientific expertise and gentlemanly status ; A taste for campaigning ; Friends -- Speaking for nature. Defending Darwin and expanding the domain of nature ; Alliances: naturalistic science and liberal theology ; The science of man: ethnologists against anthropologists ; The reader: a liberal alliance and its collapse ; Friends and conspirators -- The X Club established. Organizing science ; Specialist societies ; The British association: representing science to the nation ; The Royal Society: power and its symbolic uses ; Men of weight, of craft, and of party ; Public money and the public good. Science in the curriculum I: examination successes ; Science in the curriculum II: lobbying failures ; Money and advice: the reciprocal relations of science and government ; Hirst's career: higher education and London life ; Good and influential men -- Claiming cultural authority. Self-images ; Science militant ; Insiders: scientific men at home among the social elite ; Pulpits for science ; The rhetoric of scientific authority ; Sunday Lecture Societies: the politics of lay sermons ; Cultural leaders -- Retrospective the life, work, and times of the X Club -- Phases of power and friendship, 1860-1900 -- The X Club program: the authority and independence of science and scientific men -- Victorian science and Victorian culture.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 506/.0421; History -- General; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Intellectual life; Science; Science clubs; SCIENCE / General; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; Science -- History; Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology; Science clubs -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century; Science -- England -- History -- 19th century; London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; England; England -- London; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226551753
• Related ISBNs: 022655175X; 9780226551616; 022655161X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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