Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species

Herausgeber: Amigoni, David; Wallace, Jeff

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719040252
• ISBN-10: 0719040256
• Artikelnr.: 21822522

Autorenporträt

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University. Jeff Wallace is Lecturer in Contemporary English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology 1. Introduction: Difficulty and defamiliarisation
language and process in The Origin of Species
Jeff Wallace 2. Classification and continuity in The Origin of Species
Harriet Ritvo 3. Science, ideology and culture: Malthus and The Origin of Species
Ted Benton 4. The Origin of Species and the science of female inferiority
Fiona Erskine 5. Proliferation and its discontents: Max Müller, Leslie Stephen, George Eliot and The Origin of Species as representation
David Amigoni 6. Origins, species and Great Expectations
Kate Flint 7. Hinduism, Darwinism and evolution in late nineteenth
century India
Dermot Killingley Select bibliography Index