Geology and religious sentiment : the effect of geological discoveries on English society and literature between 1829 and 1859
This book casts new light on the intellectual and theological reactions to geological discoveries in early nineteenth-century England, showing how accepted views of the creation were transformed and how the works of philosophers, poets and novelists reflected this transformation.
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