The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin will be completed in 2022. This essay looks briefly at the history of editing Darwin and compares the modern edition with the Victorian practice of narrating an exemplary life through letters, with commemorative volumes produced by a family member or friend and p...

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Autor principal: White, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Historiographical Essay
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9468108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35749043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09685-6
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spelling pubmed-94681082022-09-14 The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters White, Paul J Hist Biol Historiographical Essay The Correspondence of Charles Darwin will be completed in 2022. This essay looks briefly at the history of editing Darwin and compares the modern edition with the Victorian practice of narrating an exemplary life through letters, with commemorative volumes produced by a family member or friend and private material carefully selected to document personal character. How is a scientific life composed? What kind of character is expressed in scientific work? Springer Netherlands 2022-06-24 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9468108/ /pubmed/35749043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09685-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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