A new volume of essays co-edited by Bernard Lightman, Humanities professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Bennett Zon, professor of Music at Durham University, was released this month.

“Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines” asks and answers critical questions about how the Victorians understood and re-fashioned disciplines. The volume draws from university curriculums, society journals, and literary genres to uncover the missing link in our historical understanding of the origins of disciplines.

“Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts,” said Professor Lightman. “Yet, despite their obvious significance for us today, seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplines.”

No book has placed such a wide array of Victorian disciplines in their cultural context. The volume was released by Routledge.