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Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century

Paperback

Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

LinguisticsSports GeneralEvolution

ISBN10: 0801872448
ISBN13: 9780801872440
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Mar 1 2003
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

In the nineteenth century, philology--especially comparative philology--made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

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