Abeles, Oren (Author)
Jack, Jordynn (Advisor)
This dissertation explores Charles Darwin’s encounter with an increasingly modern style of English agricultural rhetoric that emerged in the late 1700’s, analyzing how figurative language in those texts helped Darwin articulate his theory of natural selection. It argues that agricultural depictions of cultural change and biological power were essential to Darwin’s logical argument in The Origin of Species, and specifically that two stylistic tropes used by agricultural writers and artists, incrementum and metonymy, also enabled Darwin to reconceive the causal relationship between environments and organisms. While bringing attention to these agricultural dimensions of Darwin’s rhetoric, this dissertation simultaneously participates in recent conversations about the performativity of stylistic rhetoric, challenging the conception of style as extraneous to scientific discovery and invention.
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Thesis
Jeffrey Thomas Wright;
(2016)
Darwin, Huxley, and the Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Science
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Article
Christine Batut-Hourquebie;
(2020)
Pour une lecture rhétorique du Hasard et la nécessité de Jacques Monod
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Book
Roger M. White;
M. J. S. Hodge;
Gregory Radick;
(2021)
Darwin's Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection
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Article
James G. Lennox;
(2021)
Accentuate the negative: Locating possibility in Darwin’s ‘long argument’
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Article
de Andrade Martins, Roberto;
(2012)
A origem dos pombos domésticos na estratégia argumentativa de Charles Darwin
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Article
Brink-Roby, Heather;
(2009)
Natural Representation: Diagram and Text in Darwin's On the Origin of Species
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Article
Volker Hess;
(2020)
Der Aphorismus als Wissenstechnik
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Thesis
Andrea Nero;
(2022)
Beggars and Kings: Marginalized People in the Discourses of Early American Scientific Societies
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Article
Kouprianov, Alexei V.;
(2011)
The “Soviet Creative Darwinism” (1930s--1950s): From the Selective Reading of Darwin's Works to the Transmutation of Species
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Article
Klyve, Dominic;
(2014)
Darwin, Malthus, Süssmilch, and Euler: The Ultimate Origin of the Motivation for the Theory of Natural Selection
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Article
Hoquet, Thierry;
(2014)
Laws of Variation: Darwin's Failed Newtonian Program?
(/isis/citation/CBB001500028/)
Book
Peterfreund, Stuart;
(2012)
Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design
(/isis/citation/CBB001213065/)
Thesis
Pajewski, Alessandro;
(2012)
The Face of Nature: Hume and Darwin on Analogy and Emotion
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Book
Ruse, Michael;
Travis, Joseph;
(2009)
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
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Thesis
Gary Brooten;
(2016)
The Very Useful Notion: A Rhetorical History of the Idea of Human-Made Climate Change, 1950-2000
(/isis/citation/CBB642785483/)
Article
Renée Raphael;
(2016)
Galileo’s Two New Sciences as a Model of Reading Practice
(/isis/citation/CBB317984823/)
Article
Dmitriy Myelnikov;
(2020)
Creature Features: The Lively Narratives of Bacteriophages in Soviet Biology and Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB744503683/)
Book
Shyam Wuppuluri;
A. C. Grayling;
(2022)
Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds
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Article
David K. Hecht;
(July 2019)
Rachel Carson and the Rhetoric of Revolution
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Book
Stephen Cave;
Kanta Dihal;
Sarah Dillon;
(2020)
AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
(/isis/citation/CBB815179895/)
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