The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins

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The age of analogy : science and literature between the Darwins

Title remainder

science and literature between the Darwins

Statement of responsibility

Devin Griffiths

Creator

• Griffiths, Devin, 1978-

Author

• Griffiths, Devin, 1978-

Subject

• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 -- Influence
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Nature in literature
• Science in literature
• Literature and science -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 -- Criticism and interpretation

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

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