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Frankenstein's children: electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London
Iwan Rhys Morus
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Frontmatter
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page vii)
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PREFACE (page ix)
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PART ONE: THE PLACES OF EXPERIMENT (page 1)
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INTRODUCTION: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life (page 3)
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CHAPTER 1: The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution (page 13)
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CHAPTER 2: The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity (page 43)
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CHAPTER 3: Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science (page 70)
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CHAPTER 4: A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society (page 99)
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CHAPTER 5: The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life (page 125)
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PART TWO: MANAGING MACHINE CULTURE (page 153)
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INTRODUCTION: From Performance to Process (page 155)
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CHAPTER 6: They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity (page 164)
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CHAPTER 7: To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph (page 194)
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CHAPTER 8: Under Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy (page 231)
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CODA: The Disciplining of Experimental Life (page 257)
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NOTES (page 263)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 295)
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INDEX (page 317)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 41.4 (Oct. 2000): 810-812 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147614 |
VS | 43.2 (Winter 2001): 330-333 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3829967 |
ISIS | 91.4 (Dec. 2000): 788-789 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/236856 |
BJHS | 38.4 (Dec. 2005): 484-485 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4028468 |
AHR | 104.5 (Dec. 1999): 1755-1756 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649496 |
AS | 87.5 (Sep.-Oct. 1999): 475-476 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27857921 |
AHSS | 56.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2001): 1379-1381 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27586752 |
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Published: c1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691059525 (hardcover)
- 9780691605272 (paper)
- 9781400847778 (ebook)