Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing by Victoria Carroll

By Victoria Carroll

The notion of eccentricity used to be valuable to how humans within the 19th century understood their global. This monograph is the 1st scholarly historical past of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity have been demonstrated to make feel of people who didn't appear to healthy inside an more and more prepared social and fiscal order. She makes a speciality of the self-taught common thinker William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.

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