The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
Janet Browne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Duncan M. Porter, Cambridge University Library
Marsha Richmond, Cambridge University Library
$202.00
USDThe correspondence in this volume is dominated by the public and private response to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinising each new review, as one by one all the major organs of the day carried notices of the book. To those who express their views privately in letters, Darwin responds patiently and thoughtfully, answering their objections and attempting to guide their fuller understanding of the operation of natural selection. His more personal thoughts emerge in letters to his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. This volume presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how the Victorians coped with a theory that many well recognised would revolutionise thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.
- Much acclaimed edition
- Covers the continuing controversy stimulated by publication of the Origin of Species
Reviews & endorsements
"...presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry." The Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
"...Marked by the same thorough and painstaking scholarship as earlier volumes, the eighth volume of the Darwin correspondence provides a splendid documentary record of the life of Darwin and his circle through a most eventful year." Leonard G. Wilson, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Product details
March 1993Hardback
9780521442411
824 pages
240 × 162 × 48 mm
1.51kg
9 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of letters
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- List of provenances
- Note on editorial policy
- Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
- Abbreviations and symbols
- The Correspondence, 1860
- Appendixes
- Manuscript alterations and comments
- Bibliography
- Bibliographical register and index to correspondents
- Index.
