Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

Bernard Lightman (Editor) Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of Rethinking History and Science and Religion and coeditor of Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Identity in a Secular Age. He also serves as a general editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press.Efram Sera-Shriar (Editor) Efram Sera-Shriar is a historical anthropologist who specializes in Victorian science. He is associate professor in English studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he teaches the history and culture of the English-speaking world. Sera-Shriar is the author of Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age and The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871 and senior editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndallseries.

The volume’s chapters each contribute strongly to its overall argument, as well as being rich standalone works. . . . This is a valuable contribution to our understanding of both Victorian and modern scientific disciplinarity.