Victorian Sensation
The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: Devils or Angels
Part One: Romances of Creation
1. A Great Sensation
2. Steam Reading
3. Evolution for the People
4. Marketing Speculation
Part Two: Geographies of Reading
5. Conversations on Creation
6. Science in the City
7. Church in Danger
8. The Holy War
Part Three: Spiritual Journeys
9. Sinners and Saints
10. Self-Development
11. Anonymity
Part Four: Futures of Science
12. The Paradoxes of Gentility
13. Grub Street Science
14. Mammon and the New Reformation
Epilogue: Lifting the Veil
References
Illustration Credits
Index
ForeWord Magazine: ForeWord Magazine Book Awards
Short Listed
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Won
History of Science Society: Pfizer Award
Won
SHARP: SHARP-DeLong Book History Prize
Honorable Mention
History: British and Irish History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Religion: Religion and Society
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