Evolution and the Victorians : science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain / Jonathan Conlin.

Science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

xiii, 235 pages : illustration, facsimile, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The longest discovery, 1750-1870. Natural theology -- Comparative anatomy -- Writing The origin -- Reading The origin -- Lines of disent, 1850-1914. Christian evolution? : Charles Kingsley's 'natural theology of the future' -- Imperial evolution? : 'Greater Britons' and other races -- Progressive evolution? : Herbert Spencer, social science and 'social Darwinism' -- Domestic evolution? : making a home for science -- Sustainable evolution? : Alfred Russel Wallace and the wonderful century.