Victorians and the Prehistoric
Subtitle: Tracks to a Lost World
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300103342
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Science; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History; Paleontology; Science / History; Ancient - General; 19th century; Great Britain; Social aspects
Description: "Michael Freeman shows how men and women were both energised and unsettled by the realisation that the formation of the earth over hundreds of millions of years and Darwin's theories about the origins of life contradicted what they had read in the Bible. He describes the rock and fossil collecting craze that emerged, the sources of inspiration and imagery discovered by writers and artists, and the new importance of geologists and paleontologists. He also notes that the intellectual and emotional journey undertaken by Victorian men and women in the face of the unfolding earth narratives was increasingly being recorded, in more institutional form, in the museums that were springing up in Victorian cities and towns."--BOOK JACKET.