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Informationen zum Autor David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University Jeff Wallace is Lecturer in Contemporary English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
