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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations by MARTIN. HEWITT; Honorary Visiting Professor School of English Martin Hewitt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for understanding the cultural and intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth century. It challenges conventional notions of the 'Darwinian Revolution' by examining how people from across all sections of society actually responded to Darwin's writings. Drawing on the opinions and interventions of over 2,000 Victorians, drawn from an exceptionally wide range of archival and printed sources, it argues that the spread of Darwinian belief was slower, more complicated, more stratified by age, and ultimately shaped far more powerfully by divergent generational responses, than has previously been recognised. In doing so, it makes a number of important contributions. It offers by far the richest and most comprehensive account to date of how contemporaries came to terms with the intellectual and emotional shocks of evolutionary theory. It makes a compelling case for taking proper account of age as a fundamental historical dynamic,

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Author

MARTIN. HEWITT; Honorary Visiting Professor School of English Martin Hewitt

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192890993

Category

nonfiction