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Hace 4 días · "The life of the Victorian people was profoundly influenced by the practical application of science," notes historian Philip Magnus. Annual production of books leaped from around 600 in the 1830s to nearly 6000 by 1900 thanks to steam-powered printing presses, rail distribution and rising literacy.
Hace 1 día · Although Victorian England (and the rest of the world) was slow to embrace natural selection as the mechanism that drives evolution, the concept of evolution itself gained widespread traction by the end of Darwin’s life.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
Hace 5 días · Through a language of anxiety, ‘Victorians confronted and internalized their own sense of modernity’ (p. 221). For this innovative study, the writings of critics such as Bulwer-Lytton, polemicists, physicians and journalists provide the main windows into anxious mind-sets of 19th-century Britain.
Hace 4 días · We explore seismic societal shifts, astonishing technological advancements, and intricate global power dynamics under Queen Victoria's reign, the longest in British history. Discover how her ...
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Hace 1 día · Gilmartin’s claim, made in relation to Victorian novels, that ‘the maritime as a literary motif is not “merely metaphorical”’ and that ‘the material and poetic are intertwined, symbiotically dependent’ rings true for late-Victorian literary criticism and journalism. 130 The absorption of literary and nautical realities into the late-Victorian imagination reflects a period of ...
Hace 3 días · The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable ...
Hace 1 día · His calculations showed that the Sun could not have possibly existed long enough to allow the slow incremental development by evolution—unless it was heated by an energy source beyond the knowledge of Victorian era science.
