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Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.

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Chronology
1. Introduction: Difficulty and defamiliarisation – language and process in The Origin of Species – Jeff Wallace
2. Classification and continuity in The Origin of Species – Harriet Ritvo
3. Science, ideology and culture: Malthus and The Origin of Species – Ted Benton
4. The Origin of Species and the science of female inferiority – Fiona Erskine
5. Proliferation and its discontents: Max Müller, Leslie Stephen, George Eliot and The Origin of Species as representation – David Amigoni
6. Origins, species and Great Expectations – Kate Flint
7. Hinduism, Darwinism and evolution in late nineteenth-century India – Dermot Killingley
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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719040252, 978-0719040252
      ISBN10: 0719040256

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.

      Table of Contents

      Chronology
      1. Introduction: Difficulty and defamiliarisation – language and process in The Origin of Species – Jeff Wallace
      2. Classification and continuity in The Origin of Species – Harriet Ritvo
      3. Science, ideology and culture: Malthus and The Origin of Species – Ted Benton
      4. The Origin of Species and the science of female inferiority – Fiona Erskine
      5. Proliferation and its discontents: Max Müller, Leslie Stephen, George Eliot and The Origin of Species as representation – David Amigoni
      6. Origins, species and Great Expectations – Kate Flint
      7. Hinduism, Darwinism and evolution in late nineteenth-century India – Dermot Killingley
      Select bibliography
      Index

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