The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations by Hewitt, Martin

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On...
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Author: Martin Hewitt
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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations by Hewitt, Martin

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations

$222.24

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations

$222.24
Author: Martin Hewitt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Martin Hewitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12/12/2024
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.62w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780192890993

About the Author
Martin Hewitt, Honorary Visiting Professor, School of English, University of Leeds

After postgraduate work at the University of New Brunswick, and Nuffield College, Oxford, Martin Hewitt has held academic positions at the University of Hull, Trinity and All Saints (Leeds), Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Huddersfield, and Anglia Ruskin University. He has held visiting positions at Universit? de Cergy-Pontoise, Universit? Paris VII, La Trobe University, and the Australian National University. He has published widely in nineteenth century British history, Victorian culture, and the history of Victorian Studies and was the founding editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture, and first Honorary Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies.

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