Author: Thomas WoolnerPublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet
Author: Thomas WoolnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
[The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles Darwin. 12. 1864
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Author: Duncan M. PorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521590341
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
The year leading up to the publication of Descent of Man, Darwin's first treatment of human evolution.
Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information
Author: The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909
Author: Martin HewittPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192891006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
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, and for the powerful generational patternings of the effects that age produced. It demonstrates the extent to which the most common sub-periodisation of the Victorian period are best understood not merely as constituted by the exigencies of events, but are also formed by the shifting balance generational influence. Taken together these insights present a significant challenge to the ways historians currently approach the task of describing the nature and experience of historical change, and have fundamental implications for our current conceptions of the shape and pace of historical time.
Art and Archaeology
Author: Lady Godiva
Author: Daniel DonoghuePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047077701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day. Traces the erotic myth of Lady Godiva back to its medieval origins. Based on scholarly research but written to be accessible to general readers. Combines history, literature, art and folklore. Focuses on the twin themes of voyeurism and medievalism. Contributes to our understanding of cultural history, medievalism and the history of sexuality.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The academy
Author: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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