Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : difficulty and defamiliarisation : language and process in The origin of species / Jeff Wallace
  • Classification and continuity in The origin of species / Harriet Ritvo
  • Science, ideology and culture : Malthus and The origin of species / Ted Benton
  • The origin of species and the science of female inferiority / Fiona Erskine
  • Proliferation and its discontents : Max Müller, Leslie Stephen, George Eliot and The origin of species as representation / David Amigoni
  • Origins, species, and Great expectations / Kate Flint
  • Hinduism, Darwinism and evolution in late nineteenth-century India / Dermot Killingley.