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Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) [Hardcover]

Professor Stephen G. Alter PhD (Author)

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Publication Date: December 14, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0801858828 | ISBN-13: 978-0801858826

In the nineteenth century, philology -- especially comparative philology -- made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

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"The emphasis throughout on how analogies can influence belief is important and persuasive. All told, Alter has provided a rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- Gregory Radick, British Journal of the History of Science

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"By far the most comprehensive discussion of the contributions made by linguists for and against Darwin's theory. There are lessons here for the contemporary understanding of human evolution." -- Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago

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  • Hardcover: 216 pages
  • Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (December 14, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0801858828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801858826
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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THE METAPHORIC MIND of nineteenth-century science produced some striking conceptual transfers. Read the first page
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branching descent, ethnological analogy, bishop illustration, linguistic descent, creational laws, disciplinary convergence, linguistic paleontology, linguistic image, imitative theory, biological transmutation, linguistic themes, genealogical arrangement, human chronology, transmutation theory, descent theory, linguistic analogy, genealogical reconstruction, comparative philology, linguistic kinship, trifling variation, linguistic analogies, early notebooks, species book, biological descent
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Asa Gray, Charles Lyell, Lyell's Antiquity, August Schleicher, Max Miiller, The Descent of Man, Louis Agassiz, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Origin, Ernst Haeckel, Hensleigh Wedgwood, Max Miller, Principles of Geology, William Jones, British Association, Richard Owen, Royal Institution, The Convoluted Path, Horne Tooke, The History of Creation, Darwin's Descent of Man, Herbert Spencer, Julia Wedgwood, The Evolution of Man, Wilhelm von Humboldt
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