Bugs and the Victorians

通過將昆蟲置於不同的環境中 - 政治、宗教、性別和帝國 - John F. McDiarmid Clark展示了維多利亞時代文化對昆蟲科學和自然世界系統知識的影響。通過對著名和古怪創新者的介紹，他們試圖通過對昆蟲的專業研究為自己定義社會角色 - 其中包括保守黨牧師、銀行家和議會議員，富有的老朋友和創業學者 - Clark強調了現代英國製造中的昆蟲，並堅持認為維多利亞昆蟲學家的遺產至今仍在繼續。

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects presented a particularly inviting challenge. This lively book explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life.

By placing insects in a myriad of contexts—politics, religion, gender, and empire—John F. McDiarmid Clark demonstrates the impact of Victorian culture on the science of insects and on the systematic knowledge of the natural world. Through engaging accounts of famous and eccentric innovators who sought to define social roles for themselves through a specialist study of insects—among them a Tory clergyman, a banker and member of Parliament, a wealthy spinster, and an entrepreneurial academic—Clark highlights the role of insects in the making of modern Britain and maintains that the legacy of Victorian entomologists continues to this day.

  John F. Clark (Autor)

Publisher:Yale University Press 

ISBN:   978-0300150919 

原價   US 55 台幣價 NT$1925