TY  - GEN
T1  - The voice of science British scientists on the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America
T2  - Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
A1  - Finnegan, Diarmid A.
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1285052010
AB  - "For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science increasingly became part of public culture and debate, its spokespersons recognized the need to harness the presumed power of public speech to recommend the moral relevance of scientific ideas and attitudes. With this wider context in mind, The Voice of Science explores the efforts of five celebrity British scientists-John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Proctor, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Drummond-to articulate and embody a moral vision of the scientific life on American lecture platforms. These evangelists for science negotiated the fraught but intimate relationship between platform and newsprint culture and faced the demands of audiences searching for meaningful and memorable lecture performances. As Diarmid Finnegan reveals, all five attracted unrivaled attention, provoking responses in the press, from church pulpits, and on other platforms. Their lectures became potent cultural catalysts, provoking far-reaching debate on the consequences and relevance of scientific thought for reconstructing cultural meaning and moral purpose"--
CN  - Q223
SN  - 9780822988397
SN  - 0822988399
SN  - 9780822946816
SN  - 0822946815
KW  - Communication in science : History : 19th century.
KW  - Lectures and lecturing : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., English : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Scientists : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - British : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Great Britain : Intellectual life : History : 19th century.
KW  - United States : Intellectual life : History : 19th century.
KW  - Information scientifique : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Conférences : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Grande-Bretagne : Vie intellectuelle : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - SCIENCE.
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., English
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Lectures and lecturing
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Communication in science
KW  - British
KW  - United States
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Biographies
ER  -