Bugs and the Victorians

by John F. Clark

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects presented a particularly inviting challenge. This lively book explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300150911
• ISBN13: 9780300150919
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"