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Edited by Jim Endersby Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection is both a key scientific work of research, still read by scientists, and a readable narrative that has had a cultural impact unmatched by any other scientific text. Hardback | Learn More |
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Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture Jonathan Smith Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881, were copiously illustrated by well-known artists and engravers. Hardback | Learn More |
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David Amigoni The concept of culture, now such an important term within both the arts and the sciences, is a legacy of the nineteenth century. Hardback | Learn More |
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Gillian Beer Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the struggle for life now underpin our culture. Paperback | Learn More |
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Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability Gowan Dawson The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Hardback | Learn More |
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The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin Edited by Desmond King-Hele Erasmus Darwin has often been cited as the most widely talented man of the past 250 years. He excelled in medicine and poetry; was an inventor and wide ranging man of science, and founded several societies. Hardback | Learn More |
