Secord, James A. (Author)
Since his death in 1882, if not before, Charles Darwin has been a key icon of the modern era. The bearded sage of Down House has been invoked in a wide range of contexts in the English-speaking world, from eugenics and social policy to debates about the implications of science for religious belief. The essays in this Focus section explore the Darwinian image in an unusual diversity of media, examining portrait photographs, portable sculptures, newspaper caricatures, cartoons, after-dinner drinking songs, and long-playing records. They suggest that Darwin's celebrity needs to be understood not as the outcome of the unique qualities of his life and work, but as an aspect of the emergence of the idea of the scientist, a process closely tied to the developing communication and entertainment industries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Article Browne, E. Janet; Browne, Janet (2009) Looking at Darwin: Portraits and the Making of an Icon. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 542).
Article Clark, Constance Areson (2009) “You Are Here”: Missing Links, Chains of Being, and the Language of Cartoons. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 571).
Article Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty (2009) Singing His Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song and Musical Production. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 590).
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Richards, Annette;
(2013)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Portraits, and the Physiognomy of Music History
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Book
Dean, Dennis R.;
(2007)
Romantic Landscapes: Geology and Its Cultural Influence in Britain, 1765--1835
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Chapter
Prodger, Phillip;
(2009)
Ugly Disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin Discuss Sex and Beauty
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Book
Knoepflmacher, U. C.;
Browning, Logan Delano;
(2010)
Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation
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Chapter
Francesca Ripamonti;
(2014)
Victor Frankenstein, ovvero il Prometeo moderno nella cinematografia del xx secolo
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Dawson, Gowan;
(2007)
Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
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Purton, Valerie;
(2013)
Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
(/isis/citation/CBB001421851/)
Article
Olivia Murphy;
(2017)
“A Future to Look Forward to?”: Extinction and Evolution in Jane Austen's Persuasion
(/isis/citation/CBB855297374/)
Chapter
Danilo Manera;
(2014)
Da Gómez de la Serna a Martín-Santos passando per la narrativa popolare: i rari e sconfitti scienziati delle lettere spagnole novecentesche
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Book
Marco Castellari;
(2014)
Formula e metafora: figure di scienziati nelle letterature e culture contemporanee
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Book
Francesco Luzzini;
(2022)
Quando il mondo scalò il Sublime. Scienza e storia nel primo Memoriale dell'Hotel Nave d'Oro di Predazzo (1820-1875)
(/isis/citation/CBB828950191/)
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Major, Judith K.;
(2013)
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
(/isis/citation/CBB001422319/)
Chapter
Thomas, Deborah A.;
(2010)
Assyrian Monsters and Domestic Chimeras
(/isis/citation/CBB001201873/)
Article
Peter B. Logan;
(2022)
John James Audubon (1785–1851) carte de visite (c.1860)
(/isis/citation/CBB257939948/)
Chapter
Vandersmissen, Jan;
(2007)
Abraham Ortelius Vereeuwigd. Fantomen van Kunstzinnig Patriottisme en Geografie te Antwerpen op het Einde van de negentiende eeuw
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Kusserow, Karl;
Blackmar, Elizabeth;
Staiti, Paul J.;
Bluestone, Daniel M.;
Barquist, David L.;
(2013)
Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce
(/isis/citation/CBB001550195/)
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Sarah D. Wald;
(2016)
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
(/isis/citation/CBB082140270/)
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Gouk, Penelope;
(2004)
Doctors and Practitioners: Music and Medicine as Paradigms of the Arts-Science Divide in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB000670125/)
Article
Voss, Julia;
(2008)
Darwin oder Moses? Funktion und Bedeutung von Charles Darwins Porträt im 19. Jahrhundert
(/isis/citation/CBB000930728/)
Article
Schäfer, Armin;
(2013)
The Audiovisual Field in Bruce Nauman's Videos
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