Darwin, Literature, & Victorian Respectability

Darwin, Hooker and the documentation of Victorian science

Literature and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

The “scientific movement” and Victorian literature

ANNA THERESA COSSLETT, The "scientific movement" and Victorian literature, Brighton, Harvester Press; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 188, £20.00. Interaction between arts and sciences has long been regarded as one of the characteristic features of the Romantic era. The scientific writings by the poet Coleridge and the poetical experiments by the scientist Davy are among the ...

Sympathetic science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the passions of Victorian naturalists.

This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy was as important for Victorian naturalists as it was for Victorian husbands. Sympathy was a scientific skill that Victorian naturalists regarded as n...

ABB DARWIN Software Evolution for Industrial Automation Systems: Literature Overview

2 Outline In this document we collect and classify literature with respect to software evolution. The main objective is to get an overview of approaches for the evolution of sustainable software systems with focus on the domain of industrial process control systems. The document is structured as follows: In Chapter 1 we describe the literature investigation strategy. We present questions with r...