In an especially lively chapter, chapter 4 takes us to a collection of satirists engaged in a
subgenre Keiser calls “the mock dissection.” By mocking scientific anatomies of the brain …

While many critical works have renegotiated Ian Watt's linear understanding of the
interrelationships between the various historical and social developments of the eighteenth …

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) is remembered today only as an alleged'Social Darwinist'who
applied the theory of the survival of the fittest to society. Yet he was among the most …

The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age.
His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as …

Whether on the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Delaware, intellectuals in the early
eighteenth century tended to line up on one side or the other of the great battle of the books …

The study of Spencer in late nineteenth-century America is primarily a philosophical task: he
was regarded by his philosophical readers as the thinker who had expounded scientific …

In 1994, Herbert Spencer could still be disparaged as" an extremely unpleasant man and
theorist"(Keith McClelland in Twentieth Century British History, 5.3 [1994]: 394). Herbert …

In We Are Kings: Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual, Spencer
Jackson reads a variety of literary texts written during the long eighteenth century in order to …

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of
the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular …