Author: Rachel Crossland
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Alt, Christina, Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature
Christina Alt, Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). x+229 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 978-0-521-19655-0. In Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature Christina Alt explores the shift which took place around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within the life sciences, and which consisted primarily in the movement…
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Bowler, Peter J., Science for All
Peter J. Bowler, Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). xii+339 pp. £31 hb. ISBN 978-0-226-06863-3. In Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Peter Bowler seeks to redress the balance as far as studies of popular science are concerned, investigating…