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by Alan Rauch

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Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children's literature, mechanics' institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.
Rauch discusses both the influence and the ideology of knowledge in terms of how it affected nineteenth-century anxieties about moral responsibility and religious beliefs. Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, the book focusses on the growing importance of scientific knowledge and its impact on Victorian culture. From discussions of Jane Webb Loudon's The Mummy! and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to Charlotte Bront's The Professor, Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke, and George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, Rauch paints a fascinating picture of nineteenth-century culture and addresses issues related to the proliferation of knowledge and the moral issues of this time period. Useful Knowledge touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights on our ongoing preoccupation with knowledge.
Useful Knowledge will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth century history, literature, culture, the mediation of knowledge, and the history of science.

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""Useful Knowledge" can stand as a model of informed and scrupulous historicism. The breadth of Rauch's acquaintance with subliterary and paraliterary texts is truly impressive as he clearly lays out what was at stake for nineteenth-century intellectuals and usefully relates their preoccupations with those that concern us now, as we experience another information revolution."--Harriet Ritvo, author of "The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination "

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  • Title Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
  • Author Alan Rauch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Text is Free of
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-07-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822326687 / 082232668X
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.02 x 0.94 in (22.94 x 15.29 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects English fiction - 19th century - History and, Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00010752
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.809

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  • Choice, 01/01/2002, Page 882

About the author

Alan Rauch is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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