Science in the nineteenth-century periodical : reading the magazine of nature / Geoffrey Cantor ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-313) and index.

Introduction / Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, and Jonathan R. Topham -- The Mirror of literature, Amusement and instruction, and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain ; The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham -- Punch and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes -- The Cornhill magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- The Boy's own paper and late-Victorian juvenile magazines / Richard Noakes -- The Review of reviews and the new journalism in late-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science' / Sally Shuttleworth -- Scientific biography in the periodical press / Geoffrey Cantor -- Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late-Victorian periodical / Graeme Gooday.

"Ranging across diverse forms of periodicals, from top-selling religious and juvenile magazines through to popular fiction-based periodicals, and from the campaigning 'new journalism' of the late century to the comic satire of Punch, this book explores the ways in which scientific ideas and developments were presented to a variety of Victorian audiences. In addition, it offers three case studies of the representation of particular areas of science: 'baby science', scientific biography, and electricity. This innovative collaborative volume sheds new light on issues relating to history and history of science, literature, book history, and cultural and medical studies."--Jacket.