The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations

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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909 : Darwinism’s Generations
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Acknowledgements
Contents
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Abbreviations
Introduction
	Prologue
	A Question of Generations
	Rethinking the Generational Model
	Victorian Generations: A Tentative Schema
	Darwinism as Case Study
	Making Sense of Darwinism
	Was There a Darwinian Revolution?
	Methodology
	Conclusion
1: The Publication of On the Origin of Species
	Immediate Readings
	Context
	Public Controversies
	Late Georgian Antipathies
	Early-Victorian Rebuttals
	Mid-Victorian Dilemmas
	High-Victorian Enthusiasm
	Conclusion
2: In the Wake of the Origin
	Darwinism in the 1860s
	The Narrow Bounds of Conversion
	The Vagaries of Institutional Darwinism
	The Anatomy of Antagonism
	Conclusion
3: The Descent of Man and the High Victorians
	Immediate Responses
	The Persistence of Denial: Early Victorians
	Any Evolution but Darwin’s: Mid Victorians
	The Persistence of Resistance to Ideas of Human Evolution
	The Emergence of the High Victorians
	High-Victorian Darwinism
	High-Victorian Thought
	High-Victorian Theology
	Abiogenesis
	Conclusion
4: The Death of Darwin and After: The 1880s and the Late Victorians
	The Persistence of Older Attitudes
	The Emergence of the Late Victorians
	Late-Victorian Darwinist Identities
	Late-Victorian Evolutionary Sectarianism
	Applied Darwinism
	Idealism
	Late-Victorian Theology
	Conclusion
5: Darwinian Debates at the Fin de Siècle : The Edwardians
	The Edwardian Frame of Mind
	The Shift to Heredity and Variation
	Experimentation and the Evolution Committee
	Into the 1900s: Mutationism and Mendelism
	Renewed Saltationism
	Orthogenesis or Vitalism
	Edwardian Theological Responses
	Applied Darwinism
	A New Anti-Darwinism?
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	1908/9 Celebrations
	Darwinism
	Generations
	Anomalies
	Implications
	Summation
Appendix Prosopography
	Revolutionary
	Late Georgians
	Early Victorians
	Mid Victorians
	High Victorians
	Late Victorians
	Edwardians
	Georgians
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