Darwin studies : a theorist and his theories in their contexts / M.J.S. Hodge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Against "revolution" and "evolution" -- Darwin and the laws of the animate part of the terrestrial system (1835-1837) : on the Lyellian origins of his zoonomical explanatory program -- Darwin studies at work : a re-examination of three decisive years (1835-1837) -- The notebook programmes and projects of Darwins's London years -- The immediate origins of natural selection / with David Kohn -- Darwin as a lifelong generation theorist -- Darwin, species and the theory of natural selection -- (Darwin's reception in) England -- One Marxist view of Darwin's ideas (a review of Robert M. Young, Darwin's metaphor : nature's place in Victorian culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985) -- Darwin, the respectable, dissident, subversive gentleman (a review of Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, 1991).