Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Oliver Lodge: Continuity and Communication | James Mussell and Graeme Gooday
Part One: Lodge's Lives
1. Communication, (Dis)Continuities, and Cultural Contestation in Sir Oliver Lodge’s Past Years | David Amigoni
2. Becoming Sir Oliver Lodge: The Liverpool Years, 1881–1900 | Peter Rowlands
3. Lodge in Birmingham: Pure and Applied Science in the New University, 1900–1914 | Di Drummond
Part Two: Science and Communication
4. The Alternative Path: Oliver Lodge’s Lightning Lectures and the Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves | Bruce J. Hunt
5. Lodge and Mathematics: Counting Beans, the Meaning of Symbols, and Einstein’s Blindfold | Matthew Stanley
6. The Retiring Popularizer: Lodge, Cosmic Evolution, and the New Physics | Bernard Lightman
7. The Forgotten Celebrity of Modern Physics | Imogen Clarke
Part Three: Science, Spiritualism, and the Spaces in Between
8. Glorifying Mechanism: Oliver Lodge and the Problems of Ether, Mind, and Matter | Richard Noakes
9. The Case of Fletcher: Shell Shock, Spiritualism, and Oliver Lodge’s Raymond | Christine Ferguson
10. Beyond Raymond: The Theology of Spiritualism and the Changing Landscape of the Afterlife in the Church of England | Georgina Byrne
11. Oliver Lodge’s Ether and the Birth of British Broadcasting | David Hendy
12. “Body Separates: Spirit Unites” Oliver Lodge and the Mediating Body | James Mussell
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index