The Afterlife of Ether

THE AFTERLIFE OF ETHER

VICTORIAN PSEUDOSCIENCE, ETHER, & JOHN DAVIDSON

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• The conceptual afterlife of pseudoscientific knowledge• The brief history of ether in the nineteenth century • John Davidson’s use of ether in his poem “Fleet Street” (1909)• Ether’s continued influence on twenty-first century steampunk

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• The conceptual afterlife of pseudoscientific knowledge


CONCEPTUAL AFTERLIFE OF PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE – PHRENOLOGY


From People’s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1883)

CONCEPTUAL AFTERLIFE OF PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE – PHRENOLOGY

[email protected] || @lmhager || she, her, hers & they, them, theirsA Few of Cesare Lombroso’s Criminal

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• The conceptual afterlife of pseudoscientific knowledge• The brief history of ether in the nineteenth century



William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

James Clerk Maxwell

ETHER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY


ETHER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Woodcut of John Davidson by Robert Bryden

Poets of the younger generation 1902 by William

Archer

The Magazine of poetry and literary review, Volume 8 (1896) The Peter Paul Book Company

Contemporary portraits By Frank Harris 1915

James Russell, photographer

Portrait of John Davidson by William Rothenstein

The Yellow Book, Vol. 4 (1895)


JOHN DAVIDSON’S “FLEET STREET”


Davidson, John. “Epilogue.” The Triumph of Mammon. London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. 161.

JOHN DAVIDSON AND ETHER

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1909.



A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards St Paul’s Cathedral, London, circa 1888. Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty

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1)Read the stanzas and circle any mentions of “ether.”




2)Consider the following questions:• How do you see Davidson using ether?




2)Consider the following questions:• How do you see Davidson using ether? • How does it relate to the street’s bricks, the rings of Saturn or both?




2)Consider the following questions:• How do you see Davidson using ether? • How does it relate to the street’s bricks, the rings of Saturn or both?•What is its function in the vision of the universe that he gives us?




• The conceptual afterlife of pseudoscientific knowledge• The brief history of ether in the nineteenth century • John Davidson’s use of ether in his poem “Fleet Street” (1909)• Ether’s continued influence on twenty-first century steampunk


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STEAMPUNK & TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ETHER


STEAMPUNK & TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ETHER


VICTORIAN PSEUDOSCIENCE, ETHER, & JOHN DAVIDSON

Lisa [email protected] || @lmhager

http://bit.ly/tamucc0121Pronouns: she, her, hers & they, them, theirs

The Afterlife of Ether

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