Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521856904
Subjects: Cultural studies; Evolution; Illustration; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Commercial - Illustration; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Art; Books, Illustrated; Great Britain; Science; history
First sentence: Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture examines the illustrations in Darwin's books from his Monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881, and their relationships to Victorian visual culture and aesthetics.