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Evolutionary naturalism in Victorian Britain : the 'Darwinians' and their critics
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Evolutionary naturalism in Victorian Britain : the 'Darwinians' and their critics

Author: Bernard V Lightman
Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2009.
Series: Collected studies, CS919.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard V Lightman
ISBN: 9780754659877 0754659879
OCLC Number: 267048049
Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction; Science, scientists and the public: the contested meanings of science in Victorian Britain; Victorian sciences and religions: discordant harmonies; 'Robert Elsmere' and the agnostic crises of faith; Interpreting agnosticism as a nonconformist sect: T.H. Huxley's 'new reformation; Scientists as materialists in the periodical press: Tyndall's Belfast address; Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the strange history of a failed rhetorical strategy; Ideology, evolution, and late-Victorian agnostic popularizers;' Fighting even with death': Balfour, scientific naturalism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's final battle; Butler, natural theology and Victorian popularization; 'Voices of nature': popularizers of Victorian science; Frank Buckland and the resilience of natural theology: curiosity of natural history?; Science and the postmodern crisis; Index.
Series Title: Collected studies, CS919.
Responsibility: Bernard Lightman.

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