Victoria Carroll: 2 books
Science and Eccentricity
Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly...
Angel Unaware
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Born in a writers' workshop in Ouray, Colorado, Angel Unaware presents human history as seen through the eyes of various personae. An angel whose assignment is to "observe" humanity writes from the viewpoint of a being who has no comprehension of what it is to be human, giving a unique view...