| Author |
Carroll, Victoria |
| Year |
2008 |
| Publisher |
London: Pickering & Chatto |
| Number of pages |
254 |
| ISBN |
9781851969401 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
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.
