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The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins, Devin Griffiths

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The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins
Title
The age of analogy
Title remainder
science and literature between the Darwins
Statement of responsibility
Devin Griffiths
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins' writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study of antiquity, or "comparative historicism," that emerged outside of traditional histories
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1978-
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Griffiths, Devin
Dewey number
820.9/36
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR468.S34
LC item number
G75 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Darwin, Charles
  • Darwin, Erasmus
  • Darwin, Erasmus
  • Literature and science
  • English literature
  • Science in literature
  • Nature in literature
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The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins, Devin Griffiths
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn945121150
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 339 pages
Isbn
9781421420769
Lccn
2015051184
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)945121150
Label
The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins, Devin Griffiths
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn945121150
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 339 pages
Isbn
9781421420769
Lccn
2015051184
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)945121150

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