Résumé
Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography
In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as a manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over the questions that it raised, trying to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, and wanting to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was correct.
It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's magisterial biography opens. Beginning with the extraordinary events that finally forced the Origin of Species into print, we come to the years of fame and controversy. Here, Browne does dramatic justice to all aspects of the Darwinian revolution, from a fascinating examination of the Victorian publishing scene to a survey of the debates between scientists and churchmen over evolutionary theory. At the same time, she presents a wonderfully sympathetic and authoritative picture of Darwin himself.
Contents
- Author
- Stormy Waters
- "My Abominable Volume"
- Publish and Be Damned
- Four Musketeers
- Expérimenter
- Eyes Among the Leaves
- Battle of the Books
- Invalid
- The Burden of Heredity
- Celebrity
- Son of a Monkey
- Darwin in the Drawing Room
- England's Green and Pleasant Land
- Home Is the Sailor
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
L'auteur - Jane Browne
Jane Brown a publié de nombreux ouvrages portant sur l'art des jardins et sur la culture du XXe siècle. Parmi ceux-ci, les plus célèbres sont : Gardens of a Golden Afternoon qui retrace l'histoire de la période où Gertrude Jekyll s'associa à Edwin Lutyens, tous deux précurseurs du mouvement moderne, et The Pursuit of Paradise.
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Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Princeton University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Jane Browne |
| Parution | 04/11/2003 |
| Nb. de pages | 592 |
| Format | 15,5 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 855g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780691114392 |
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