Science and Eccentricity
Science and Eccentricity

Author: Victoria Carroll

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0822981815

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The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5
Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5

Author: Dianne Dugaw

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1040249299

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These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations make inspirational and compelling reading.

The Man Who Crucified Himself
The Man Who Crucified Himself

Author: Maria Böhmer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004353607

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The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.