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The book that changed America how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation

Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.

Main Author: Fuller, Randall, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Stein, Sylvia tribute.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882. > On the origin of species.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Evolution (Biology) > United States > History > 19th century.
Summary: Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.
Physical Description: x, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780525428336
052542833X
Author Notes: Randall Fuller is the author of From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature , which won the Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award for best literary criticism, and Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists . He has written for The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and other publications, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa.

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