Table of Contents

Introduction, Martin DauntonScience in nineteenth-century England: plural configurations and singular politics, John PickstoneClassifying sciences: systematics and status in mid-Victorian natural history, Jim EndersbyVictorian social science: from singular to plural, Lawrence GoldmanPolitical economy and the science of economics in Victorian Britain, Keith TribeReason and belief in Victorian mathematics, Daniel J. CohenVictorian classics: sustaining the study of the ancient world, Frank M. TurnerThe evolution and dissemination of historical knowledge, Michael BentleySpecialization and social utility: disciplining English studies, Josephine M. GuyThe organization of literary knowledge: the study of English in the late nineteenth century, Carol Atherton'Old studies and new': the organization of knowledge in university curriculum, John R. GibbinsThe promotion and constraints of knowledge: the changing structure of publishing in Victorian Britain, James RavenLibraries, knowledge and public identity, David McKitterickMeasuring the world: exploration, empire and the reform of the Royal Geographical Society, 1874-93, Max JonesCivic cultures and civic colleges in Victorian England, Samuel J. M. M. AlbertiIntimacy, imagination and the inner dialetics of knowledge communities: the Synthetic Society, 1896-1908, W. C. LubenowThe Academy abroad: the nineteenth-century origin of the British School at Athens, Mary Beard & Christopher StrayThe strange late birth of the British Academy, Richard Drayton