CHAPTER FIVE. Cultural Historian in a Political Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: An Improbable Personage 1
5. CHAPTER TWO. Lehrjahre of a Poetic Wrangler 13
6. CHAPTER THREE. Apostle of Renunciation: A New Werther 43
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Pearson’s Progress: A Nineteenth-Century Passion Play 69
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Cultural Historian in a Political Age 91
9. CHAPTER SIX. Intellectual Love and the Woman Question 125
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. Ether Squirts and the Inaccessibility of Nature 178
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Scientific Education and Graphical Statistics 215
12. CHAPTER NINE. The Statistical Reformation 249
13. CHAPTER TEN. Epilogue: Composing a Life 297
14. Bibliography 315
15. Index 329