Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1438
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- UCL Press
- ISBN
- 9781787353930
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century, co-edited with Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, and Frank James is a 17-chapter peer-reviewed interdisciplinary volume that analyses the historical and theoretical relationships between scientific method, ‘applied science’, artistic and literary practices, and understandings of ‘the modern’ in the early years of the twentieth century. Shiach was a member of the interdisciplinary editorial team that conceived the central research questions to be addressed, selected the contributors, and commissioned additional material to ensure appropriate breath and originality. As a member of the editorial team she also worked closely on the refinement and revision of seven chapters. The editorial team met regularly over a period of two years, having first collaborated on the design and delivery of an AHRC-funded conference on science and Modernism in 2015. Each member of the team led on specific research areas, with Shiach contributing particularly to shaping the chapters on cultural history and theory and on literature. Shiach also co-authored the 19-page introductory chapter with Bud, contributing in particular an analysis of ‘the modern’ as an ‘actors’ category’ and making the case for the intellectual and historical advantages of the interdisciplinary approach of the volume. Shiach contributed a 19-page chapter on the engagements of Dorothy Richardson, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf with scientific ideas and metaphors which included archival as well as analytical research. The volume was published by UCL Press on an open access basis, which has enabled extensive engagement with the research by readers across the globe. As Joe Cain argued in his Foreword to this volume, ‘this collection of original papers delivers richly researched, critical and thought-filled case studies of Modernity as an actors’ category’.
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