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Article: Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2006
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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 attends to the entire range of his writing. By virtue of what I would like to think ...