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Culture's Malthusian Turn
From: Science Museum
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Catherine Gallagher |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
Thomas Malthus is well known as a founding father of demographics and political economy. His work The Principles of Population (1798) had a profound influence on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Recently, however, scholars from various disciplines have started to consider Malthus' work as an influence on the cultural authorities of the nineteenth century.
In this article, Catherine Gallagher, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses Malthus' influence on the work of both Charles Darwin and George Eliot. This article is adapted from a lecture given at the "Locating the Victorians" conference held at the Science Museum in June 2001. |
Catherine Gallagher discusses the influence of Malthus on some of the literary and scientific giants of the Victorian era.
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