A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-2848
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN
- 9780822945956
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Deriving from an AHRC research network 2013-2015, this collection is the result of four years work. It is not only the first book-length study of Lodge's life and career since W.P. Jolly's 1975 biography but, bringing together literary scholars, historians of science, cultural historians, and scientists, provides the fullest account of Lodge to date. Mussell is the co-author of the introduction, the section introductions, and contributes the final chapter.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- A Pioneer of Connection is the first full-length account of the life and career of Oliver Lodge since W.P. Jolly’s 1975 biography. It derived from an AHRC research network that examined Lodge in interdisciplinary context, seeking to better understand his fame in the period and his relative neglect today. Lodge was probably the best-known scientist of his day, his reputation established through his pioneering work on electromagnetism in the 1890s and then consolidated by his many popular scientific publications in the decades that followed. He was also a spiritualist, and, while his outspoken views on the beyond did not harm his reputation as a scientific authority during his lifetime they certainly did so subsequently. The project considered all of Lodge’s interests and influences as well as asked questions about disciplinarity today. The book does likewise. Mussell and his co-editor not only invited expert contributors to address different aspects of Lodge’s life but also structured the book to pose questions of interrelation. Mussell is the co-author of the introduction as well as the introductions to the three sections. He also contributes a chapter on the ether and materiality that considers what Lodge’s thought might offer us as we confront our own digital present.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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