Authority, authorship, and Lamarckian self-fashioning in the works of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

The Lamarckian thought of Samuel Butler (1835–1902) has been much observed in relation to his evolutionary works, but my thesis offers a wider ranging examination, and argues for the pervasiveness of Lamarckian ideas across the whole breadth of Butler’s varied oeuvre. In his intervention into evolut...

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Main Author: Gillott, David James
Published: Birkbeck (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.571287