Charles Darwin's the origin of species : new interdisciplinary essays / David Amigoni, Jeff Wallace, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1995], ©1995.
Description
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Texts in culture. [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206) and index.
Contents
  • 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 Muller, 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.
Other title(s)
Origin of species
ISBN
  • 0719040248 (hardback)
  • 0719040256 (pbk.)
LCCN
94026485
OCLC
30738917
RCP
C - S
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