Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

Bennett Zon is Professor of Music at Durham University, where he is founding director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Zon is a founding co-director of the International Network for Music Theology; founding co-owner of Nineteenth-Century JISCmail; and founding general editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review and the book series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Zon received his DPhil in Music History from Oxford University. Recent publications include Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture and Evolution and Victorian Culture (co-edited with Bernard Lightman).Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is currently President of the History of Science Society. Lightman received his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Brandeis University. His research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz).

• IntroductionBernard Lightman and Bennett ZonSection I: Professional ValidationChapter 1. The Evolution of the Scientific DisciplinesBernard LightmanChapter 2. Disciplining Terpsichore: Moves Towards the Study of Dance in Victorian BritainTheresa Jill BucklandSection II: University EducationChapter 3. Positivism and Early Chairs of Art History in Europe: 1860-1880Barbara LarsonChapter 4. The Manchester School of History: Victorian Origins of a ‘Modernist’ DisciplineH.S. JonesSection III: Society JournalsChapter 5. Un-gentlemanly Science: Rhetoric and Rivalry in the Codification of British Zoology, 1830-1840David LowtherChapter 6. The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt and British Anthropology in the 1860sEfram Sera-ShriarSection IV: Literary GenresChapter 7. ‘A subject which is peculiarly adapted to all cyclists’: Popular Understandings of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth-Century PressRachel Bryant DaviesChapter 8. Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child PsychologyRoisín LaingSection V: Disciplinary BoundariesChapter 9. Disentangling Antiquity: Classics and Theology in the Nineteenth CenturySimon GoldhillChapter 10. From Truth to Proof to Computer Problem: Of Mathematical Discipline and Epistemological ChangeJoan L. RichardsSection VI: InterdisciplinarityChapter 11. Middlemarch and the Limits of InterdisciplinarityRenata Kobetts MillerChapter 12. All Arts Constantly Aspire to the Condition of Musicology: Victorian Musicology as InterdisciplineBennett ZonConclusion: Metapatterns, MetadisciplinesBernard Lightman and Bennett Zon