Science in Wonderland ：The scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain 英文原版 仙境里的科学: 英国维多利亚时代的科学神话（牛津读物） Melanie Keene

基本信息

By (author) Melanie Keene

Format Hardback | 256 pages

Dimensions 144 x 223 x 24mm | 448g

Publication date 26 May 2015

Publisher Oxford University Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Illustrations note Approx 25 black and white illustrations and an 8 page colour plate section

ISBN10 0199662657

ISBN13 9780199662654

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop of water revealed a soup of monsters.

Science in Wonderland explores how these stories were presented and read. Melanie Keene introduces and analyses a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales, from nursery classics such as The Water-Babies to the little-known Wonderland of Evolution, or the story of insect lecturer Fairy Know-a-Bit. In exploring the ways in which authors and translators - from Hans Christian Andersen and Edith Nesbit to the pseudonymous 'A.L.O.E.' and 'Acheta Domestica' - reconciled the differing demands of factual accuracy and fantastical narratives, Keene asks why the fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences. Such stories, she argues, were an important way in which authors and audiences criticised, communicated, and celebrated contemporary scientific ideas, practices, and objects.

在维多利亚时代的英国，许多作家捕捉到了新科学发现的兴奋，并通过将介绍性的解释转变为古怪，迷人而富于想象力的童话，诱使年轻的读者和听众学习他们的秘密。力量可能是仙女，恐龙可能是龙，仔细观察一滴水就会发现一大堆怪物。

《仙境科学》探索了这些故事的呈现和阅读方式。梅兰妮·基恩（Melanie Keene）介绍并分析了一系列维多利亚时代的科学童话，从托儿所经典作品（如《水上宝贝》到鲜为人知的进化仙境）或昆虫讲师童话“小知识”的故事。在探索作者和翻译者的方式-从汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生和伊迪丝·内斯比特到化名“ ALOE”和“ Acheta Domestica”时，

为了调和事实准确性和奇幻叙事的不同要求，基恩（Keene）询问为什么选择仙女及其故事作为捕捉和向年轻观众展示科学技术知识的合适新形式。她认为，这样的故事是作家和听众批评，

交流和庆祝当代科学思想，实践和对象的重要方式。

作者简介

Melanie Keene is a historian of science for children, based at Homerton College, Cambridge. She has published several academic and popular articles on scientific books and objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, on topics from candles, pebbles, or cups of tea, to board games, toy sets, and model dinosaurs.

梅兰妮·基恩（Melanie Keene）是位于剑桥的荷姆顿学院的儿童科学历史学家。从18世纪到20世纪，她发表了多篇有关科学书籍和物件的学术文章和热门文章，涉及从蜡烛，鹅卵石或茶杯到棋盘游戏，玩具套装和恐龙模型的主题。

书籍目录

Introduction: Nothing But Facts? ; 1. Once Upon a Time ; 2. Real Fairy Folk ; 3. Domestic Fairylands ; 4. Wonderlands of Evolution ; 5. Through Magic Glasses ; 6. Technological Marvels ; Conclusion: Stranger Than Fiction ; Notes ; References ; Index