Geology and Religious Sentiment: The Effect of Geological Discoveries on English Society and Literature Between 1829 and 1859This book deals with reactions to geological discoveries in early nineteenth-century England. How did theologians cope with new scientific evidence of the antiquity of the world which was contrary to accepted biblical chronology? And what repercussions did this picture have on philosophers, poets and novelists? The first part of the book concentrates on Charles Lyell's religious and scientific views. This is followed by a study of William Buckland, Adam Segdwick and William Whewell, three clergymen who were also geologists. The last section explores the literary reception of the revolutionary discoveries of Lyell and his contemporaries. |
Contents
The Geological Setting The Dangerous and Visionary | 1 |
The Period to 1830 From Former Worlds | 15 |
If We Dont Irritate We Shall Carry All with Us | 27 |
Principles of Geology 183233 Working Hard at Natural | 51 |
Modified Mud or Modified Monkey Uniformity | 61 |
Progress Education and Unitarianism | 75 |
William Buckland BridgeovertheWater | 87 |
Adam Sedgwick How Much Good Might He | 102 |
William Whewell Lyells Labours and Ideas | 132 |
Swinging MidAir among the Precipices of Life | 157 |
The Whole Creation Groaneth and Travaileth | 168 |
Deus Quidam Deceptor | 177 |
Towards Abatement of the Fever | 188 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Bibliography | 201 |
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