Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Darwinian science and Victorian respectability; 2. Charles Darwin, Algernon Charles Swinburne and sexualised responses to evolution; 3. John Tyndall, Walter Pater and the nineteenth-century revival of paganism; 4. Darwinism, Victorian freethought and the Obscene Publications Act; 5. The refashioning of William Kingdon Clifford's posthumous reputation; 6. T. H. Huxley, Henry Maudsley and the pathologisation of aestheticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.