Author: Laurie Garrison

Carroll, Victoria, Science and Eccentricity

Apr 8, 2009

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Laurie Garrison

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian

Victoria Carroll, Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008). 254 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 1851969403. Victoria Carroll’s Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences explores an astounding range of material from anecdotes about alligator wrestling to pastoral idylls about the…
Burney, Ian, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination

Oct 27, 2008

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Laurie Garrison

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian

Ian Burney, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006). 224pp. £35 hb. ISBN 0719073766. The middle decades of the nineteenth century are well-known to be a period where popular culture was fascinated with deviant behaviours. These were the decades that saw the height of popularity of sensation novels and sensation drama, genres rife with…