| Description |
xx, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: Genesis and Revelation -- Prologue: The Psychology of Biography -- 1. Uncertain Beginnings -- 2. The Evolution of a Naturalist -- 3. Breaching the Walls of the Species Citadel -- 4. The Mystery of Mysteries Solved -- 5. A Gentlemanly Arrangement -- 6. Scientific Heresy and Ideological Murder -- 7. A Scientist Among the Spiritualists -- 8. Heretical Thoughts -- 9. Heretical Culture -- 10. Heretic Personality -- 11. The Last Great Victorian -- 12. The Life of Wallace and the Nature of History -- Epilogue. Psychobiography and the Science of History -- App. I. Wallace Archival Sources -- App. II. Wallace's Published Works |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402) |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
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Natural selection.
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Naturalists -- England -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001055721 |
| ISBN |
0195148304 (cloth) |
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