The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 8. 1860
£147.00
Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Janet Browne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Duncan M. Porter, Cambridge University Library
- Marsha Richmond, Cambridge University Library
- Date Published: April 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521442411
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The correspondence in this volume is dominated by the public and private response to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinising each new review, as one by one all the major organs of the day carried notices of the book. To those who express their views privately in letters, Darwin responds patiently and thoughtfully, answering their objections and attempting to guide their fuller understanding of the operation of natural selection. His more personal thoughts emerge in letters to his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. This volume presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how the Victorians coped with a theory that many well recognised would revolutionise thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.
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- Covers the continuing controversy stimulated by publication of the Origin of Species
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'So important are the events of 1860, and so engaging are the letters, that the volume has much to offer a wide intellectual audience. It is a splendid example of the high calibre of historical research that has come to be associated with the Darwin industry.' Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Trends in Ecology
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- Date Published: April 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521442411
- length: 824 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 162 x 48 mm
- weight: 1.51kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The Correspondence, 1860
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Bibliographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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