%0 Thesis
%A Parkison, Shawn Robert
%D 2020
%T The Society of Mad Scientists: Scientists and Social Networking in the Victorian Novel
%U https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/The_Society_of_Mad_Scientists_Scientists_and_Social_Networking_in_the_Victorian_Novel/12567377
%R 10.25394/PGS.12567377.v1
%2 https://hammer.purdue.edu/ndownloader/files/23441762
%K literature
%K Victorian
%K nineteenth century
%K mad scientist
%K scientists
%K science
%K Jekyll
%K Moreau
%K Van Helsing
%K Sherlock
%K Kuhn
%K Badiou
%K Literature
%K British and Irish Literature
%X
This dissertation explores the figure of the mad scientist in Victorian literature through some of the most enduring literary examples, viewing these works not as anti-science cautionary tales but rather thought experiments for dealing with hazardous scientists and hazardous science. It makes a claim for a spectrum of hazardous scientists from the beneficial to the truly mad and argues that the primary difference between them is a matter of socialization. It argues that these novels advocate for the scientist and society to negotiate and co-construct a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship.
%I Purdue University Graduate School