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Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture.(Book review)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060922
Author:Levine, George

Jonathan Smith, Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

(Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2006) xxii + 349 $75.00

In the texture of its writing, the meticulousness of its scholarship, and the freshness of its analysis, Jonathan Smith's Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture seems an understated and modest book. But it lives up to the ambition of its title and deserves to be recognized, in addition, as one of the finest (and most careful) cultural studies of Darwin that the growing Darwin industry has produced. This is a major book, one of the very few studies of Darwin that ...

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