Peter W. Graham
Ashgate
Hardback
214
2008
Are Austen and Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation by situating both writers in the empirical tradition. Employing trenchant analysis informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and recent work by historians of science Graham's comparative study gives us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.
Ashgate
Hardback
214
2008
Are Austen and Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation by situating both writers in the empirical tradition. Employing trenchant analysis informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and recent work by historians of science Graham's comparative study gives us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.