Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
Subtitle: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 14, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801858826
Subjects: Evolution; Historical & comparative linguistics; History of science; United States - 19th Century; Language; Historical Linguistics; Organic Evolution; Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Linguistics; Darwin, Charles; Influence; Science / History; Darwin, Charles,; 19th century; Comparative linguistics; Evolution (Biology); History
First sentence: THE METAPHORIC MIND of nineteenth-century science produced some striking conceptual transfers.