Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture (Variorum Collected Studies)

Synopsis

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the highly politicised roles of embryos and monsters in pre- and post- Darwinian evolutionary theorizing, including Darwin’s; several studies of the intersection of Darwinian science and its practitioners with issues of gender, race and sexuality, featuring a pioneering contextual analysis of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and explorations of responses to Darwinian science by notable Victorian women intellectuals, including the crusading anti-feminist and ardent Darwinian, Eliza Lynn Linton, the feminist and leading anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe, and Annie Besant, the bible-bashing, birth-control advocate who confronted Darwin’s opposition to contraception at the notorious Knowlton Trial.

Copyright:

2020

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ISBN-13:

9780429883446

Related ISBNs:

9780429467042, 9780367501822, 9780367501822, 9781138607712, 9781138607712

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/23/20

Copyrighted By:

Evelleen Richards, The right of Evelleen Richards to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections

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Language:

English

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History, Nonfiction

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