Intermediality in Nineteenth-Century British Popularizations of Science
The public culture of nineteenth century science in Britain,especially from the mid-century on,was composed of a rich entanglement of media.The important communicators of science in the nineteenth century were"intermedial"in their practice.Here I will argue that the roots of modem intermediality lie in the nineteenth century,when the popularization of science in books,periodicals,lectures,museums,and exhibitions really started to take off.Although there were numerous sites where science was popularized,they shared three distinguishing characteristics:they embraced miscellaneity;they claimed to be educational;and they aimed to entertain their audiences.In what follows I will focus on how John George Wood,John Henry Pepper,Francis Buckland,Richard Anthony Proctor and George Henry Bachhoffner communicated science to the public in similar ways,practising in an intermedial fashion—though they would not have recognised the form—across a variety of different media.
IntermedialityPopularization of scienceBritish nineteenth century scienceMiscellaneityEducationEntertainment
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