Evolution In Victorian Britain
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Evolutionary Naturalism In Victorian Britain
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Author : Bernard Lightman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Evolutionary Naturalism In Victorian Britain written by Bernard Lightman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with History categories.
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals, including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.
Evolution And The Victorians
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Author : Jonathan Conlin
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-16
Evolution And The Victorians written by Jonathan Conlin and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with History categories.
Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of negotiation between imagination, faith and knowledge which began long before 1859 and which continues to this day. Evolution and the Victorians provides historians with a survey of the thinkers and debates implicated in this process, from the late 18th century to the First World War. It sets the history of science in its social and cultural context. Incorporating text-boxes, illustrations and a glossary of specialist terms, it provides students with the background narrative and core concepts necessary to engage with specialist historians such as Adrian Desmond, Bernard Lightman and James Secord. Conlin skilfully synthesises material from a range of sources to show the ways in which the discovery of evolution was a collaborative enterprise pursued in all areas of Victorian society, including many that do not at first appear "scientific".
Evolution In Victorian Britain
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Author : Caden C Testa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2024-09-03
Evolution In Victorian Britain written by Caden C Testa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with History categories.
This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin. Highlighting some of those whom Darwin later acknowledged as well as number he chose not to, readers are shown that the notion that none of these earlier thinkers offered a well-developed or workable theory of evolution is untenable once we read their own words. Further, we will quickly see that transmutation, or the 'developmental hypothesis' as it was also sometimes called, had a wide audience across the period under consideration. Scholars such as Adrian Desmond have already drawn attention to the political radicals in the London and Edinburgh medical schools who embraced the transmutationist ideas of the French anatomists Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire and the naturalist and zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and the historians John van Wyhe and Roger Cooter have highlighted the materialist naturalism of phrenologists whose work was so amenable to developmentalist thinking. Paul Elliott has drawn our attention to the "Derbyshire Darwinians," who championed the transmutationist and egalitarian Enlightenment ideas of Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather -- as well as the extent to which the Derby Philosophical Society was a breeding ground for this kind of thinking. It was here, for instance, that the young radical journalist Herbert Spencer spent many hours in his formative years. Thus, while Darwin was quietly working away at his big species book, transmutation was being discussed and debated, written about, and advocated across the nation. The book he eventually published in 1859, On the Origin of Species, was thus a contribution to an already very lively, controversial, contested, and ongoing debate. However, Darwin had not intended to published Origin as we know it; it is in fact only what he called a brief abstract of the detailed multi-volume work he had initially had in mind. It was upon receipt of a short essay from the naturalist and collector Alfred Russel Wallace that Darwin was pressed to publish. In this short paper Wallace had quite independently arrived at a theory of species development that was remarkably similar to that which Darwin had been working on for some twenty years.
Evolutionary Naturalism In Victorian Britain
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Author : Bernard V. Lightman
language : en
Publisher:
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Evolutionary Naturalism In Victorian Britain written by Bernard V. Lightman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with HISTORY categories.
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals, including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.
Evolution And Victorian Culture
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Author : Bernard V. Lightman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-23
Evolution And Victorian Culture written by Bernard V. Lightman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.
The Rise Of Respectable Society
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Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Rise Of Respectable Society written by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain
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Author : Ian Hesketh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-22
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain written by Ian Hesketh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-22 with History categories.
Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Historicism And The Human Sciences In Victorian Britain
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Author : Mark Bevir
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-10
Historicism And The Human Sciences In Victorian Britain written by Mark Bevir and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-10 with History categories.
This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to public culture, it will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.
The Reception Of Darwinian Evolution In Britain 1859 1909
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Author : MARTIN. HEWITT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-09-12
The Reception Of Darwinian Evolution In Britain 1859 1909 written by MARTIN. HEWITT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-12 with History categories.
This book uses the impact of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to explore the hidden role of generations in the cultural history of Victorian Britain, and to challenge conventional notions of the 'Darwinian Revolution' by examining how people from all sections of society responded to Darwin's writings.
Evolutionary Theory And Victorian Culture
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Author : Martin Fichman
language : en
Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books
Release Date : 2002
Evolutionary Theory And Victorian Culture written by Martin Fichman and has been published by Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This absorbing study of the Victorian controversies over the cultural meaning of evolution broadens our perspective by discussing the roles played by prominent individuals besides Charles Darwin, notably Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Henry Huxley. Fichman traces the emergence of science as a definitive political and cultural force in this critical period, showing that evolutionary biology was at the epicenter of these profound sociocultural transformations. His astute analysis of the often vehement Victorian debates on the political, religious, racial, and ethical implications of evolutionary thought reveals how science came to be inseparable from the broader culture. He also relates 19th-century controversies to cultural debates in the 20th century, in particular the notorious Scopes trial (1925) and the later, and ongoing, debate about "scientific creationism." For all those fascinated, and perplexed, by the impact of evolutionary theory on our worldview, and the increasingly close ties between science and Western culture, Fichman's historical perspective lends much clarity and context to current controversies.