... alive and writing today. Poets have been responding to Charles Darwin and his ideas ever since The Origin of Species was first published 150 years ago. The book discusses the historical development of Darwinism and the poetry that goes alongside it, and is particularly concerned...

...This chapter examines how nineteenth-century philosophers from William Paley and Charles Darwin to John S. Mill and William Whewell described and debated the relations between art and science as well as practice and theory. Offering close readings of Paley’s Natural Theology...

... Keaton Buster Elizabeth Bishop poetry prose change transformation travel Blaise Pascal Charles Darwin Should ‘ we have stayed at home and thought of here?’ is one of Elizabeth Bishop’s most direct questions of travel – a counterfactual question that immediately complicates its...

...This chapter narrates the birth of the detective and sensation novel, relates it to the spread of evolutionary issues before and after Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and develops these premises with reference to Braddon’s Henry Dunbar and Lady...

... important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time when Charles Darwin...

...This chapter argues that both the so-called eclipse of Darwinism around the turn of the last century and disputes between current evolutionists have been overplayed. It then briefly addresses the tradition of Darwinian poetry that runs from Charles Darwin's own day to the present. It uses three...

... relationship with Ian Black and his science in this poem can stand for the wider relationship between poets and poetry on the one side and Charles Darwin and Darwinism on the other. Black leaves it unresolved whether his sense of beauty goes beyond Darwinism, as he suggests at first, or whether it is itself...

... it turns to the important question of the possible influence of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians’ on Charles Darwin during his time as a medical student in Edinburgh in the years 1825 to 1827, during which period he rubbed shoulders with many of the key proponents of evolutionary ideas in the city. Chambers...

... of evolutionary ideas into Great Britain, where they would influence both the development and the reception of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Edinburgh University of materialism natural theology Paley William Robertson William Buffon George Louis Leclerc Comte de fossil...

... and Charles Darwin, to establish a sense of the repertoire of stylistic models on which Humboldt’s British translators could draw. A second section examines Humboldt’s own writing style and briefly addresses the difficulties inherent in translating it from the French- or German-language originals. Finally...

... to Walter Pater’s aestheticism and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Engaging multiple intersections between modernism and theology, Avery argues that ‘the spirituality of Orlando emerges from a deep wonder before the mystery, strangeness, and absurdity of life’. Avery’s reading...

... Wells H G Beer Gillian Caughie Pamela Davison Claire Lambert Elizabeth Pinka Virginia Woolf’s dog Rosenthal Michael Smith Craig animal emotion Bob Charles Darwin’s dog Polly Charles Darwin’s dog Stephen Leslie Hume David natural history Priestley Joseph Derrida Jacques extinction Sixth...

...Intrigued by the descriptions of hitherto unknown species, Victorian naturalists embarked on Pacific journeys to study new flora and fauna. The third chapter follows a young Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as they develop theories that would challenge the assumed boundaries between...

... Said Edward Stein Gertrude Svevo Italo Woolf Virginia Aristotle Beckett Samuel Bildung plot Bildungsroman biographical narrative Butler Judith Butler Samuel chronology Darwin Charles Darwin’s caterpillar family novel Freud Sigmund Greene Graham habit Holocaust Lawrence D H Locke...

.... Jeffers shares Meredith's equanimity in the face of death. In ‘Vulture’, Jeffers turns Meredith's abstract idea of death as part of the cycle of life into a vivid material reality. The role poetry plays in facing death after Charles Darwin differs from poet to poet. For Meredith and Jeffers...

... the second traces the development of evolutionary ethics from Adam Smith and Charles Darwin to the work of E.O. Wilson, David Sloan Wilson, and Jonathan Haidt. Along the way, it considers the so-called “Darwin Wars” over the competing evolutionary theories of kin selection, group selection and species...