Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

by Nancy Rose Marshall

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082294653X
• ISBN13: 9780822946533
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"