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The specialization thesisthe idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplineshas played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization a

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

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    Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
    Publication Date: 5/14/2024 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780822948148, 978-0822948148
    ISBN10: 0822948141

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    The specialization thesisthe idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplineshas played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization a

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