Contesting Cultural Authority

A volume of essays which constitutes a major overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise.

Zusammenfassung
This volume of essays reflects research, teaching and writing carried out over more than twenty years. The essays cover an extremely wide spectrum, from the issues of secularization and cultural apostasy, to the relationship between science and religion, and the ancient world.

Inhalt
Preface; Part I. Shifting Boundaries: 1. The religious and the secular in Victorian Britain; 2. Cultural apostasy and the foundations of Victorian intellectual life; 3. The crisis of faith and the faith that was lost; 4. The secularization of the social vision of British natural theology; Part II. Science and the Wider Culture: 5. Victorian scientific naturalism and Thomas Carlyle; 6. Rainfall, plagues, and the Prince of Wales; 7. The Victorian conflict between science and religion: a professional dimension; 8. Public science in Britain: 1880-1919; Part III. Moderns and Ancients: 9. British politics and the demise of the Roman public: 1700-1939; 10. Ancient materialism and modern science: Lucretius among the Victorians; 11. Virgil in Victorian classical contexts; 12. The triumph of idealism in Victorian classical studies; Index.

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