Description
Was the theory of natural selection considered a description of Victorian society or a vision of how society ought to be?
Essential reading
Is the theory of Natural Selection independant of its history?
Gregory raddick
2003
The cambridge companion to darwin 147-172
Looking backward, 2000-1887
Book by Edward Bellamy [1917] Essential
Read the introduction and chapter V.
Evolution social and organic
Book by Arthur M. Lewis 1908 Essential
Please read chapter V “de Vries’ Mutation” (pp.81–96)
Looking backward, 2000-1887 in The Internet Archive
Book by Edward Bellamy 1890 Optional
Note for students
—Offers a vision of slow, gradual evolution towards socialism.
Looking backward, 2000-1887
Book by Edward Bellamy 2007
—Offers a vision of slow, gradual evolution towards socialism.
Wealth in The North American Review
Article by Andrew Carnegie September 1981
The Best Fields for Philanthropy in The North American Review
Article by Andrew Carnegie December 1889
Progress And Poverty in The Internet Archive
Book by Henry George 1876
Secondary reading
Common Knowledge: Science and the Late Victorian Working-Class Press in History of Science
Article by Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins December 2001 Optional
Eugenics and Utopia: Sexual Selection from Galton to Morris in Utopian Studies
Article by Patrick Parrinder 1997 Optional
American socialists and evolutionary thought, 1870-1920 | Chapter 11: ‘Science and the New Socialist Intellectuals’ in American socialists and evolutionary thought, 1870-1920
Chapter by Mark Pittenger Optional
Note for students
Chapter 11: ‘Science and the New Socialist Intellectuals’ is the seminar reading, but the rest of the book is excellent if you’re interested in this topic. DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on this course.
The first Darwinian left : socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914
Book by David Stack 2003 Optional
Darwin Without Malthus : the struggle for existence in Russian evolutionary thought
Book by Daniel Philip Todes 1989 Optional
Global Spencerism : The communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist
Book edited by Bernard V Lightman 2016 Optional
Darwin’s Metaphor : Nature’s place in Victorian culture
Book by Robert M Young 1985 Optional
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