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SUMMARY:Gideon Mantell\, Thomas Hardy\, and the politics of geological kno
 wledge - Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group)
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:This paper pays attention to the cultural and political signif
 icance of the concept of the 'provincial' as it was experienced by two ver
 y different geological writers in the Victorian period\, the fossil collec
 tor Gideon Mantell and the novelist Thomas Hardy. The men are connected th
 rough Mantell's Wonders of Geology\, the sixth edition of which Hardy read
  and utilized for his descriptions of the geological past in his third nov
 el\, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873). In their overlapping considerations of th
 e ways in which the meanings of geological objects and collections were ti
 ed to the places in which they were discovered and displayed\, and the loc
 al practices which made them comprehensible\, both Hardy and Mantell viewe
 d geology not only as a science capable of unravelling a long-dead past\, 
 but as a science which also shaped the geographical\, social and political
  contours of the world the Victorians inhabited in the present.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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