Darwin and the General Reader : The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872

Name: Darwin and the General Reader
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226204871
Price: 7500 KES
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ISBN: 9780226204871

by Alvar Ellegard

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0226204871

ISBN-13 9780226204871

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 15th, 1990

Print length 340 Pages

Weight 595 grams

Dimensions 2.30 x 1.60 x 0.20 cms

Product Classification: Media studies Press & journalism Evolution

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Drawing on his investigation of over one hundred mid-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals, Alvar Ellegard describes and analyzes the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution during the first dozen years after the publication of the Origin of Species. Although Darwin's book caused an immediate stir in literary and scientific periodicals, the popular press largely ignored it. Only after the work's implications for theology and the nature of man became evident did general publications feel compelled to react; each social group responded according to his own political and religious prejudices. Ellegard charts the impact of this revolution in science, maintaining that although the idea of evolution was generally accepted, Darwin's primary contribution, the theory of natural selection, was either ignored or rejected among the public.

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