Charles Darwin, the origin of species : new interdisciplinary essays
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. -- .
Print Book, English, ©1995
Manchester University Press, Manchester, ©1995
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780719040245, 9780719040252, 0719040248, 0719040256
1082512978
Chronology1. Introduction: Difficulty and defamiliarisation – language and process in The Origin of Species – Jeff Wallace2. Classification and continuity in The Origin of Species – Harriet Ritvo3. Science, ideology and culture: Malthus and The Origin of Species – Ted Benton4. The Origin of Species and the science of female inferiority – Fiona Erskine5. Proliferation and its discontents: Max Müller, Leslie Stephen, George Eliot and The Origin of Species as representation – David Amigoni6. Origins, species and Great Expectations – Kate Flint7. Hinduism, Darwinism and evolution in late nineteenth-century India – Dermot KillingleySelect bibliographyIndex -- .